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