“Life is a slow suicide, and it is happening to every intellectual.”
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Interview video hosted on Youtube. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=EgpSHpATAIM,
“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”
— Herman Wouk, book The Caine Mutiny
Source: The Caine Mutiny
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