Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Maureen Corrigan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
“I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi”
“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own life stories and - especially important - to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”
“In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”
“ According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. ”
“Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.”
“Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.”
“Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.”
“Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.”
“Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.”
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books, curiosity, people, education, passivity, conformity, reading, career, servanthood, acculturation
