Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

Dan Groat
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Books were not objects to be used or manipulated, they were objects of contemplation. When you read a book, the writer, the words, and the entire universe were all compressed into one neatly bound package. There was no need for a back-and-forth exchange of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations or words, and no menace of real loss. Reading a book required far less energy than reading people. Books seldom disappointed you and they never died.

Source: Monarchs And Mendicants

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