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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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