“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
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Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 106

As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)

Interview in Writers at Work, First Series (1958), edited by George Plimpton
Variant: A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Source: Conversations with William Styron

by Ung Huot, Ranariddh's successor as First Prime Minister of Cambodia in August 1997
[Conflict and Change in Cambodia, Kiernan, Ben and Hughes, Caroline, 2007, Routledge, 9780415385923], p. 36.

“When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke”

UKIP facing 'difficult' local elections - Gerard Batten https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43920556 BBC News (27 April 2018)
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