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The book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. In the book The Princess Bride, the author William Goldman said that “A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.” This is true to the point, because a book is a story that should be able to be interpreted by the reader. There are many different ways a reader can interpret a story, and while a reader may take bits and pieces from a book and apply them to their own life, they will never end up sounding exactly like the writer who wrote it.
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