Walter TevisI feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
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Reading books brings us knowledge, wisdom, and strength. It gives us the ability to see the world in different ways through other people’s eyes. It gives us a way to escape from our own lives into that of others, to experience the richness of other lives while learning from them.
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