To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
Alan Bennett
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Books are not about passing time. Theyre about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
- Alan Bennett