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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' Yo...more

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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' Yo...more

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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

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As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still...more

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Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and ...more

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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.