Joan Aiken Quotes

The Use Of Reading, Gibbon Says Somewhere, Is To Aid Us In Thinking. I Have Always Disagreed With Gibbon Over That; He May Have Used Literature To Help Him Think, But For Me, Often, And For Most Of The Human Race I Reckon (since I Have No Reason To Think Myself Unique) Books Can Be A Mind-stupefying Drug, Employed To Banish Thought, Not To Invoke It. When I Am Unhappy I Can Sink Into A Novel As Into Unconsciousness. Blessed War And Peace, Thrice Blessed Mansfield Park; How Many Potential Suicides Have Their Pages Distracted And Soothed And Entertained Past The Danger Point?

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