Walter Tevis quotes
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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
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“New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.”
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“The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.”
-- Walter TevisSource : "Fictional character: Thomas Jerome Newton". "The Man Who Fell to Earth", www.imdb.com. March 18, 1976.
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“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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