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  1. Reading as an effective form of vision quest was destroyed forever.--The Second Pass, savaging On the Road + more http://tinyurl.com/m6pg7l
  2. The anti-Botton/Hoffman? I just got a polite, even friendly e-mail from an author whose book I'd strongly criticized.
  3. @samarov "Pierre spent a long time pacing the room, no longer piercing the invisible enemy with his sword."--Tolstoy, not a Cubs fan?
  4. My review of the new John Crowley novels is up at the Second Pass: <http://thesecondpass.com/?p...
  5. Acknowledging that a writer whose work we have come to rely on is out there–alive, active–sustains us.IainSinclair http://tinyurl.com/nzg854
  6. The Countess Tolstoy herself is a character in a great Russian novel, perhaps one by Dostoevsky rather than Tolstoy.--Elizabeth Hardwick
  7. Mann has the rare gift of creating characters out of ideas, prejudices and cultural affectations.--Elizabeth Hardwick, "Thomas Mann at 100"
  8. Dilapidation is his genius.--V. S. Pritchett, on James Boswell
  9. There is a great difference between people who are ambitious and people who are fascinated by ambition.--Anthony Powell, Writer's Notebook
  10. If you say you are a doctor, people will believe anything.--Eric Ambler, The Light of Day
  11. The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to _think_ while you walk.--Jefferson
  12. @readandbreathe Monster's Notes intriguing, but style's a bit daunting at that length. Ed Park reviewed it 4 LAT: http://tinyurl.com/lbec48
  13. . . . that you never want to be an agenda item at a meeting to which you're not invited. --Craig Calcaterra, http://tinyurl.com/krs6mv
  14. One of the most important things I've learned in my life is . . .
  15. She was a sketch for a statue of Honesty putting its foot in its mouth.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution
  16. Sometimes it seemed to you that she was not a person, not a thing, but an idea, and a mistaken one at that.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures
  17. The really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution
  18. There was nothing she didn't feel free, feel obligated to tell you about herself: she was her own tombstone.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures
  19. If I tweeted all the great lines in Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution, I'd bring the Fail Whale. I'll try to show restraint.
  20. Local amenities, if they cannot explain themselves in a single sentence, vanish.--Iain Sinclair, LRB: http://tinyurl.com/nzg854