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“If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not learning.”

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“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”

“As to the monetary value of books I had no knowledge, but their intellectual value was immediately evident.”