A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know abo…

Walter Mosley
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him, my father had told me more than once. A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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