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1. "In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast." ~ Mark Edmundson
2. "The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough." ~ Mark Edmundson
3. "Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the Mono-Culture")." ~ Mark Edmundson
4. "Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess." ~ Mark Edmundson
5. "Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do most of us look up and smile in gratitude and pleasure?" ~ Mark Edmundson
6. "Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go." ~ Mark Edmundson
7. "The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an "alienated majesty" ~ Mark Edmundson
8. "[Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work. The circles he draws on the deep are weak and irresolute. And this is so in part because King...is a sentimental writer. In his universe, the children...are good, right, just and true.... But bring this way of seeing the world out into experience and you'll pretty quickly pay for it. Your relation to large quadrants of experience...will likely be paranoid and fated to fail...." ~ Mark Edmundson
9. "For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview." ~ Mark Edmundson

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