Books do pretend. ..but squeezed in between is even more that is true–without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Matthew Pearl
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In the time of Shakespeare, a good book was a fresh and often short story that contained a moral or lesson that could be learned from the text. In the time of Shakespeare, a good book contained no more than 200 pages and was all about love and morality and love and morality and love and morality. Nowadays, we read books like: “Fifty Shades of Grey” (I’m not kidding… this book is about Fifty Shades of Grey). Books like these make up for their lack of moral sense by adding in stuff like: “fifty shades of grey” (I’m not kidding… this book is about fifty shades of gray). Clearly, we have come a long way from the days when the only books were the Bible and Shakespeare.

Source: The Last Dickens

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