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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
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"At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly."
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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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