One day I noticed that the books I read had ceased to have anything properly to do with me. I read as I might in some foreign city, to fill the time, the way you go to visit a museum, gazing at the exhibits with a kind of courteous disinterest.
—Sandor Marai, from Portraits of a Marriage
Newtown, Connecticut, October 17, 1959 by Andre Kertesz
Newtown, Connecticut, October 17, 1959 by Andre Kertesz
One day I noticed that the books I read had ceased to have anything properly to do with me. I read as I might in some...
note: “ceased to have anything properly to do with me.” I love this quote for three reasons. (1) As a follow up to the...