One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. (Anne Fadiman)

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Anne Fadiman

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