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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
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