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Subject: Quote on the Role of Reader and the Writer

dialyn opened this issue on Jun 20, 2003 · 6 posts
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dialyn ( ) posted Fri, 20 June 2003 at 7:46 AM · edited Thu, 19 September 2024 at 9:52 PM

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." - Marcel Proust

Azha ( ) posted Fri, 20 June 2003 at 8:11 AM

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. * Logan Pearsall Smith Which is also what I find I like about most people. Azha !)

"Every line means something."
Jean Michel Basquiat

Azha ( ) posted Sat, 21 June 2003 at 8:32 AM

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. (Thomas Paine) I just so loved the spirit and purpose of Paine's writing. so I thought to place this here.

"Every line means something."
Jean Michel Basquiat

dialyn ( ) posted Sat, 21 June 2003 at 8:43 AM

Thank you for posting. It's a great quote. And so true!

Crescent ( ) posted Sun, 22 June 2003 at 1:32 PM

Oh, that Thomas Paine quote is really hitting home right now! ;-) Thanks for the quotes.

dialyn ( ) posted Mon, 23 June 2003 at 7:59 AM

"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive." - James Baldwin

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