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I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end. ↗

— Frank Conroy

#reading #life

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#appreciate #breaking #hearts #irony #joke

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#awake #been #before #cannot #did

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#books #me #metaphysics #more #satisfies

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#destruction #man #only #prevent #provoke

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#books #destined #god #i #i think

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#am #choose #despair #i #i am

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#between #book #difference #eight #hundred

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#finds #looking #new #new york #once

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#book #feeling #gives #her #money