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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of ...more

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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my...more