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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.' --Sylvia Plath
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There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that. 'Is there no way out of the mind?' Sylvia Plath famously asked. I had been interested in this question (what it meant, what the answers might be) ever since I had come across it as a teenager in a book of quotations..
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Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Greene. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are Escape Routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.
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It's such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.' --Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram
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