“Books say: She did this because.
Life says: She did this.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Life says: She did this.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
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