TOWARD THE END of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator is sprawled out on a beach at night when he begins thinking about the moment Dutch sailors first saw what is now called New York. Fitzgerald writes, “For a
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“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
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― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
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― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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