If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need d…

Wendell Berry
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel? ✨ Wendell Berry (2010). What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, p.10, Counterpoint Press
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