Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile | Books | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/29/my-life-as-bibliophile-julian-barnes
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge
deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different
countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing
is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes,
joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but
symbiotic.

---SPSmith

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