“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
"Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book", http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-28/news/9810280139_1_reading-eskimo-woman-places Chicago Tribune, 28 October 1998; reprinted in The Best of Mary Schmich (2012) as "A Discount Ticket to Everywhere".
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