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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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