Book Quotes of the Week

"There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O’Connor
True, but if people wouldn't like it, it wouldn't be a bestseller. So, maybe they are good for something.

"My job is not to explain the Turks to the Europeans and the Europeans to the Turks, but to write good books." Orhan Pamuk
One of my favourite authors. Even though he doesn't think that's his job, he fulfils it pretty well. 
 
"Literature is Freedom." Susan Sontag
Amen to that.

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room." Steven Wright

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