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Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life Quotes: Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
         

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.


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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
         



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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.



We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.



the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.



those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...



In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.





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