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The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

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literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

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..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

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Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the...more

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It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...