“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 131

"Women, Politics and Murder" (published in Black Mask, September 1924; retitled "Death on Pine Street" when reprinted in the first anthology of Continental Op stories, The Continental Op, published in 1945; subsequent reprintings have used the latter title for this story)
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John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
Source: Between the Lines

At a rally in Naples (28 March 2006) as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm
2006