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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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