The addictive semiconscious vice ordtak

en The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy-having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train peering over shoulders, bending down to attend simultaneously to a shoelace and a dust jacket, furtively changing seats.

en He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure. You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.

en I was reading a book and found myself crashing into the person opposite me. The train was going over and over and over, and people were thrown onto the floor.

en Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

en Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

en We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finish the stage safely you need to keep out of the dust of the car in front. It was just like a long train of cars and bikes today. There was no chance to get into a rhythm.

en I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
  Dan Rather

en I was a kid when Dean came out. Dean was the inspiration. Even the red jacket he wore in 'Rebel Without a Cause,' you saw that red jacket popping up all over the place. He really reached people in a way; it was kind of a phenomenon when you think of it. I wonder what it would be like today, that kind of a person ... he made that connection with his audience. And I remember at that time my mother loved him. He reached everybody.

en When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love
  Erica Jong

en It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

en I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

en Our defense kept bending and bending and giving up things here and there, but they never really broke. I thought that showed a lot of perseverance in the way they played.

en He was the only person who was like, lucid, cogent, intelligent -- was reading a book, ... He was the only person I met in The Tenderloin besides me who was reading a book.
  Doug Ferrari

en It's a classic political deal. You have to make sure, one person said to me, that instead of being on the train tracks you get on the train.

en They saw her crate being loaded -- and then they saw some airport person bending down to look into it.


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