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Books Quotes by Richard Wright
- It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense…
- It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.…
- Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
- The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of…
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