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With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscu...more

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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult...more

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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of paten...more