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Mark Twain
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
Mark Twain

James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin

Margaret Atwood
“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
Margaret Atwood

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