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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
‘Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.
‘I read, I think,’ she said to Norman, ‘because one has a duty to find out what people are like,’
Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
‘Bloody cheek,’
Queen herself thought that such feelings probably arose out of her reading books,
