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• What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…
• When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
• In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
• The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
• Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
• His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not…
• Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon…
• This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

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