Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. (Susan Sontag)

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Susan Sontag

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