From The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino
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"A literary work can succeed in making us forget it as such, but it leaves its seed in us."
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"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
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- I'm a bookseller and a used books buyer of more than 30 years experience and a lifelong bibliophile. I've been married in all but legality to my husband Allen for more than 35 years.
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