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L'insensibilita e tipica anche dei personaggi negativi di Jane Austen: Lady Catherine, Mrs Norris, Mr Collins o i Crawford. Il tema ricorre inoltre nell'opera di Henry James e negli eroi-mostro di Nabokov, Humbert, Kinbote, Van e Ada Veen. In questi romanzi l'immaginazione e equiparata all'empatia, alla capacita di immedesimazione: non possiamo vivere cio che hanno vissuto gli altri, pero in letteratura siamo in grado di comprendere anche i personaggi piu mostruosi. Un bel romanzo e quello che riesce a mostrarci la complessita degli individui, e fa si che tutti i personaggi abbiano una voce; e allora che un romanzo si puo definire democratico - non perche sostiene la democrazia, ma per la sua stessa natura. L'empatia e il cuore di Gatsby, come di molti altri grandi romanzi - non c'e niente di piu riprovevole che restare ciechi di fronte ai problemi e ai dolori altrui. Non vederli significa negare la loro esistenza.
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Azar Nafisi |
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He was halfway to the house, thinking to set the cabbage inside the kitchen door,when a brown blur thundered past him. Joanna Robbins tore out of the barn astride a magnificent chestnut quarter horse. She leaned forward in the saddle,hat flopping against her back, hair streaming out behind her in a wild curly mass as she urged her mount to a full-out gallop. Unable to do anything but stare, Crockett stood dumbstruck as she raced past. She was the most amazing horsewoman he'd ever seen. Joanna Robbins. The shy creature who claimed painting and reading were her favorite pastimes had just bolted across the yard like a seasoned jockey atop Thoroughbred. She might have inherited her mother's grace and manners, but the woman rode like her outlaw father.Maybe better.
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horseback-riding
joanna-robbins
jockey
painting
reading
shy-people
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Karen Witemeyer |
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Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody's in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Harvard Square, Harry W. Schwartz in Milwaukee and, in my own hometown of Washington, D.C., Olsson's and Chapters.
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bookstores
publishing
reading
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Azar Nafisi |
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Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.
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reading
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Azar Nafisi |
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Ahora digo --dijo a esta sazon Don Quijote-- que el que lee mucho y anda mucho ve mucho y sabe mucho.
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reading
traveling
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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disability
media
reading
social-networking
technology
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.
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imagination
reading
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Read liberal and conservative news sources; business, history, religion. All of this creates a renaissance persona that can stand toe-to-toe with any Fortune 500 executive. Get a nice suit and wear it; don't see yourself as a blown-in hayseed. View yourself as a modern Jeffersonian intellectual agrarian. What's on your bookshelf? How many hours a week do you read? Readers are leaders. Cultivate friendships across disciplines, politics, and religion. Entertain guests often; that's a cheap way to receive cosmopolitan information without having to travel.
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reading
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Joel Salatin |
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The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class. Books were my birthright too.
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class
education
reading
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Jeanette Winterson |
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As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
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reading
reflection
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
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maturation
reading
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
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nineteenth-century
reading
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Kate Atkinson |
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Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach. Wore eyeglasses you wanted to grind underfoot like a butterfly. He talked like a white college boy, read books when he didn't have to, and mined them for uranium to power his own personal A-bomb. Still--sturdy.
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books
intelligence
nerds
reading
softness
sturdiness
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Colson Whitehead |
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They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.
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child
childhood
hero
judgment
kid
life
reading
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Maile Meloy |
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Marie-Laure lee a Julio Verne en la conserjeria, en el bano, en los corredores. Lee en los bancos que hay en la galeria central y en cualquiera de los cientos de senderos de grava que hay en los ajrdines. Lee tantas veces la primera parte de Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino qu epracticamente se la acaba sabiendo de memoria
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reading
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Anthony Doerr |
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I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one dragged and dropped information on the computer. Perhaps I was suffering from a touch of information sickness? If I could weed out my thoughts...There was one reliable cure I've found, a bit of the hair of the dog--the release in reading. Not a manual: something with a narrative, a chute built by a writer and waxed until the reader fell into it and skittered right to the end without stopping. The relief of being in someone else's hands. Yes, exactly: I needed to be under a spell....it didn't matter who I was, or what I did, or where I paid taxes, or how long I stayed. I'm sure it didn't matter if the book had RFID tags or a checkout card with a ladder of scrawled names, though tags were neat. I knew the librarians would help me figure out anything I needed to know later--I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or in this case, guardians of my peace. They were the authors of this opportunity--diversion from the economy and distraction from snow, protectors of the bubble of concentration I'd found in the maddening world. And I knew they wouldn't disturb me until closing time.
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peace
reading
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Marilyn Johnson |
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Dona Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por alli por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba <>. Dona Lorena decia que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. <>. Durante la guerra la metieron en la carcel de mujeres y dijeron que se habia ahorcado en su celda.
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books
lectura
librarian
libros
mujeres
reading
women
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los mas del ano, se daba a leer.
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reading
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Il senso di calore che avvertii la prima volta che tenni un libro in mano, prima ancora di aprirlo, non mi ha mai abbandonato. Cominciai a leggere voracemente, tutto e di tutto, e poco dopo aver finito un libro ne iniziavo un altro. Passavo da Beatrix Potter a A.A. Milne e a J.D. Salinger; da Harold Robbins a Hemingway e Dostoevskij; da Anna Frank a John Steinbeck e Proust; da Leon Uris a Isaac Bashevis Singer e Gertrude Stein, ad infinitum. Ero entrata in una compagnia di sconosciuti, e da allora ho sempre seguito il cammino che hanno tracciato per me. I loro pensieri mi hanno condotto a scoprire altri significati nei miei. Mi ha sempre colpito come un libro parli all'altro, ampliandone il significato.
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libri
reading
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Bernice Eisenstein |
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Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale--its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak.
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literature
mysteries
reading
series-books
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Selma G. Lanes |
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I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.
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books
burnout
ennui
reading
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Katherine Dunn |
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It'll be dark soon, Rudy.' He walked on. 'So what?' 'I'm going back.' Rudy stopped and watched her now as if she were betraying him. 'That's right, book thief. Leave me now. I bet if there was a lousy book at the end of this road, you'd keep walking. Wouldn't you?
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reading
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Markus Zusak |
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I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn't enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started--no longer.
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reading
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Gretchen Rubin |