To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...sel — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...sel — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...sel — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...sel — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...sel — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

— Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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