We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
Steve AlmondTag: friendship books lonliness
Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days, but in the whirl of memories?
Steve AlmondThis was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.
Steve AlmondTag: jealousy
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
Steve AlmondOur job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books are a powerful antidote for loneliness, for the moral purposelessness of the leisure class. It’s our job to convince the 95 percent of people who don’t read books, who instead medicate themselves in front of screens, that literary art isn’t some esoteric tradition, but a direct path to meaning, to an understanding of the terror that lives beneath our consumptive ennui.
Steve AlmondTag: writing
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