"My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted."

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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

— Kate Beckinsale