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“a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”

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Book:Almond
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Book:The Library at Night
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Book:The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
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