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Rebecca Makkai Quotes

I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey Or Alphabetical Or Worse - And So The Books Lived In Stacks, Some As Tall As Me, In The Most Subjective Order I Could Invent.
Thus Nabokov Lived Between Gogol And Hemingway, Cradled Between The Old World And The New; Willa Cather And Theodore Dreiser And Thomas Hardy Were Stacked Together Not For Their Chronological Proximity But Because They All Reminded Me In Some Way Of Dryness (though In Dreiser's Case I Think I Was Focused Mainly On His Name): George Eliot And Jane Austen Shared A Stack With Thackeray Because All I Had Of His Was Vanity Fair, And I Thought That Becky Sharp Would Do Best In The Presence Of Ladies (and Deep Down I Worried That If I Put Her Next To David Copperfield, She Might Seduce Him).

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

Rebecca Makkai Quotes: I Refused To Have Bookshelves, Horrified That I'd Feel Compelled To Organise The Books In Some Regimented System - Dewey

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