Alan Jacobs Quotes

#1. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.

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#2. Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

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#3. The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

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#4. ... the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

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#5. Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

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#6. So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.

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#7. Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

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#8. And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.

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#9. You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.

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