“A book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”
Ernest Hemingway
more infosource: blurb on front cover of Cyril Connolly’s book The Unquiet Grave (New York: Persea Books, 1981).
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“Few books will I not reread sooner.”
Dwight Garner
more infosource: review of Peter Manso’s book Reasonable Doubt, in “A Murder Trial to Cover, Axes to Grind,” The New York Times, July 7, 2011.
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“The moment I’d finished I bought myself a first edition, and then another, for a friend’s birthday. It’s that sort of book.”
Nick Hornby
more infosource: review of How to Breathe Underwater, “November 2003,” in The Polysyllabic Spree (San Francisco, CA: Believer Books, 2004), 33.
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“This is not your auntie’s self-help book. No muffled ‘I’m OK—You’re OK’ tone here. The vibe is: I’m Superbad, bro, and I have dimples. You’re a mole person who, if you become an angel investor in my books, might someday touch the hem of my Speedo.”
Dwight Garner
more infosource: review of Timothy Ferriss’s book The 4-Hour Body, “New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!,” The New York Times, January 6, 2011.
category: book review, self-help, vibe
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“It’s as if someone had carved one of John Updike’s Rabbit novels onto a few thousand grains of rice.”
Dwight Garner
more infosource: review of G. B. Trudeau’s 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, in “Panel by Panel, a Graphic Record of Our Time,” The New York Times, December 23, 2010.
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“A good book of letters beats an almost-good novel any day.”
Dwight Garner
more infosource: “Friends Who Didn’t Mince Words,” The New York Times, December 9, 2010.
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“Bosom not as copious as she would wish, but has noticed that Botticelli bosoms are not big either. Legs OK, according to husband. Freckles.”
Julia Child
more infosource: Describing herself in a February 23, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 78.
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medium: letter
notes: Quoted in Dwight Garner's review of the book in the New York Times, "Friends Who Didn’t Mince Words," December 9, 2010.
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