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What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion
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What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
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Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

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