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If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.
David Denby Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
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If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.
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Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

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