Thomas C. Foster

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The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

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Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money

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Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources

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Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike

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The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying