Rob Ryser (Author of Great Desires for Absent Things)

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Rob Ryser

欧宝娱乐 Author

Born

The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Health, Mind & Body

Influences

Augustine, Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, William ...more

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November 2011

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I was never told that if I stopped reading I would stop thinking for myself, and if I stopped thinking for myself I would stop being myself.

No one told me that I would become a weightless creature in a world of gravity.

And I was never told that the meaninglessness I suffered as a result of walking away from reading was reversible if I would only discover what I knew about my world by recovering what I knew about myself.

No one told me that a reading man has a chance.

But my experience is proof that both things are the truth.

I did die from a lack of meaning. But I rose by following the two new rules of reading, and by living in range of ideas about identity and destiny and origin and purpose.

I learned that reading feeds what the soul needs ...more

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Rob Ryser's Blog: excerpts from The Wall at newquoin.com

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	Great Desires for Absent Things 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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