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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
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