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Astrid Lindgren
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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