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— Lawrence Durrell"I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced."
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If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.
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