mardi 10 janvier 2012

Falling Hard

"As it was with our first loves, we fall hard for our first books. When we were with them the rest of the world fell away. And as with our first loves, we will never let go of ourselves like that again."

"The diminishment of the intensity is an evolutionary imperative. We reach a point at which we no longer allow ourselves to read like that because if we did we would never get anything else done. We wouldn’t meet new people or remember to make those doctors appointments. If we still read with the intensity of an eight-year-old or loved with the intensity of a novice, at thirty we might forget to leave the house at all."

Source: Nell Boeschenstein, "The Way We Used to Walk the Dog." The Millions, August 10, 2010:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/the-way-we-used-to-walk-the-dog.html

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