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"There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely..." — Lynn Coady
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
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