Anne Fadiman Quotes

• Si de verdad amas un libro, deberías dormir con él, escribir en él, leerlo en voz alta y llenar sus páginas de migas de magdalena.

  Anne Fadiman

  Libro, Escritura, Sueño

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• My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

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  Weather, Interesting, Borders

  "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down". Book by Anne Fadiman, 2012.

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• In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

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  Book, Views, Nineteen

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

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  Reality, Views

  Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.276, Macmillan

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• When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos.

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  Sleep, Cat, Bookstores

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• It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

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  Errors, Ice Cream, Weather

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

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  Book, Stories, Refrigerators

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.15, Macmillan

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• It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

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  Long, Library, Belief

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.21, Macmillan

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• The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

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  Action, Shoreline, Edges

  Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.

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  Color, Justice, House

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

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  Drug, Doubt, Influence

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.171, Macmillan

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• One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

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  Children, Parenting, Thinking

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

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  Niños, Libro, Pensamiento

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• I have never been able to resist a book about books.

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  Book, Able

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.139, Macmillan

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• You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

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  Falta

  Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Leer en voz alta significa no saltarse nada, no hojear nada, no ir al grano.

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  Reading, Mean, Cutting

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

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  Bereavement, Matter, Serious

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan

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• When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

  Anne Fadiman

  Writing, Dark, Purple

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan

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• One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

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  Book, Literature, Copyright

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.88, Macmillan

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• My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

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  Brother, Self, Parent

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• Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Worry, Thank God

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• I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

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  Book, Water, Settling

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Una profesora de filosofía de mi universidad, cuyo bebé se enamoró del retrato de David Hume en un libro de bolsillo de Penguin, hizo plastificar la cubierta para que su hija pudiera iniciarse en el gran pensador.

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  Daughter, Baby, Philosophy

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan

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• It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

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  Old Things, Waiting, Psychology

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