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“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
Philip Hensher“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
Philip Hensher“I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.”
Philip Hensher“It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.”
Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers“CAME" - Crownless Ambition Must Emerge - Genereux Philip”
Genereux Philip“The poem says you only think you’re alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moon’s tongue.”— Philip Lamantia, “Fin Del Mundo”
Philip Lamantia“If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization”
Philip Mauro“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.”
Philip Yancey“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”
Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”
Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica