“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”