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“ Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. ”

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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

~ Maureen Corrigan

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

~ Maureen Corrigan

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

~ Maureen Corrigan

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

~ Maureen Corrigan