"Books explain the real world. They bring you close to it in a way you could never manage in the course of the day. ... People never explain to you exactly what they think or feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all."
                                     ~ Gabriel Northwood, A Week In December by Sebastian Faulks

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