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A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it__verything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.
Ursula K. Le Guin The Wild Girls
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A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it__verything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wild Girls

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