Friday, May 18, 2007

Swann on newspapers

M. Swann speaks:

"What I fault the newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in our lives do we read a book in which there is something really essential."

Swann's Way, translated by Lydia Davis (New York: Viking, 2002), 26

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