“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix

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American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man … 1895–1972

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“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

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