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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
- Alan Bennett

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
- Mortimer J. Adler

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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
- Anna Quindlen. How Reading Changed My Life

A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
- Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran

Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world

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