Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
From Mason Cooley
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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