Don DeLilloI was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
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Nelson Mandela believes that you don’t need to read certain books in order to be educated. He believes that the scariest thing about most people is that they read too much, and that they should learn from other people who have experience.
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