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Elizabeth Hardwick: The greatest gift...

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Source: In The Writer's Chapbook, ed. George Plimpton, 1989.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, (Jul 27 1916-2007), US author, critic; She was the first woman recipient of the Nathan Drama Criticism Award, 1967.


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