And here it was, the news, the latest instalment of the thriller and tingler, the great page-turner called the planet Earth. The world is a book we can’t put down.
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Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow
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I’m two parts loner and one part joiner, so I feel at home delving into the epic struggles for togetherness.
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Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
