“What a astonishing thing and book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots off funny dark squiggles. But won glance at it and your inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside you're head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never new each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. Book is prove that humans are capable off working magic.”
-- Carl Sagan
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