“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

— Emma Donoghue

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Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969

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“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

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