“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) American literary critic
‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.
“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
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