A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

Roy Blount, Jr. (b. 1941) American writer, speaker, journalist, humorist

“Reading and Nothingness: Of Proust in the Summer Sun,” New York Times (1985-06-02)
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