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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. - Aldous Huxley
Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Mr. Scogan, in Crome Yellow, ch. 14 (1922).

Categories: Addiction, Escapes, Reading

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