Paula Marantz Cohen Quotes

#1. He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.

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#2. She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.

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#3. What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

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#4. He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress of choice had weighed on him.

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#5. Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.

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#6. It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

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