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"A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing "classical music; that two, he was doing it "softly; and that three, "there were not many readers around in summer. I was there, a one-man multitude."
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