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Extraordinary Discourse 170

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Special: Books, Readers, and Writers Book love is your pass to the greatest, the purest and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. Anthony Trollope All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. Amy Lowell If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. Don DeLillo To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Susan Sontag Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish  I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismis