I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. - Jamaica Kincaid

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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. - Eckhart Tolle quotes