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There Can Be Something Cruel About People Who Have Had Good Fortune. They Equate It With Personal Goodness.

I Love Telling People What To Read. It's My Favorite Thing In The World, To Buy Books And Force Books On People, Take Bad Books Away From People, Give Them Better Books.

We Are Taught To Be Suspicious, Especially Of Anyone Who Might Not Look Like Us Or Share Our Beliefs.

I Think, If You Want To Grow A Novelist, For That Person To Have A Lot Of Boring Time Trying To Entertain Themselves Is Very Important.

He Believed That Life, True Life, Was Something That Was Stored In Music. True Life Was Kept Safe In The Lines Of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin While You Went Out In The World And Met The Obligations Required Of You. Certainly He Knew (though Did Not Completely Understand) That Opera Wasn't For Everyone, But For Everyone He Hoped There Was Something. The Records He Cherished, The Rare Opportunities To See A Live Performance, Those Were The Marks By Which He Gauged His Ability To Love.