" He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. " That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said." It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, " but I don't want to waste valuable time reading a book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. "
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