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Women have always been spies. ↗

— Harriet Rubin

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. ↗

— Dodie Smith

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If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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All this happened, more or less. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! ↗

— Roland Barthes

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