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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

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Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel, he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.

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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

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