“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object
made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark
squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person,
maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is
speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is
perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never
knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
~ Carl Sagan
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