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title: "2 Weekend Book Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“ The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-of-five-books-that-i-wrote/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/blake-bailey-22734_books_the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-o_986039.png)

> [I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-banks/i-much-prefer-working-with-kids-whose-life-could-be-completely/)

[Russell Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-banks/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/russell-banks-7660_book_i-much-prefer-working-with-kids-whose-li_2506638.jpg)

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