Alan Bennett On Reading

December 18, 2017October 14, 2018 ~ The Wisdom Archivist

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

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