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If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.
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We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.
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William Gerhardie
Born:
November 21, 1895
Died:
July 15, 1977
(aged 81)
Bio:
William Alexander Gerhardie was a British novelist and playwright.
Known for:
The Polyglots (1925)
Of Mortal Love (1936)
The Memoirs of Satan (1932)
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