Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one d…

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Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. ✨ George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946
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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. ✨ George Orwell (1969). Coming Up for Air, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. ✨ George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946

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