She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

Eudora Welty
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When she was a child she read all of Charles Dickens and, as an adult, she still reads him. She puts Dickens on the same level as marriage and family, so she can’t help but pick up his books again and again. Someone who has such a love of Dickens isn’t likely to put him down as easily as most people do. He’s someone who simply can’t be ignored or put aside.

Source: One Writers Beginnings

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