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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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