Ander Monson Quotes

#1. To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

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#2. While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

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#3. Whom do we speak to, and how do we encode our messages? How can we be heard or read, even after we are dead?

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#4. I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature's killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that's not the word.

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#5. I suspect you knew: to live is to be irradiated. It is a sacrifice, this life.

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#6. Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?

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#7. To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone.

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