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A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. it is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what i myself experienced. that's not to say readers make up the book they want. we all have to agree on the facts. but readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. a book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.
-Richard Ford
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A Reader Is Entitled To Believe What

Richard Ford
A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. it is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what i myself experienced. that's not to say readers make up the book they want. we all have to agree on the facts. but readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. a book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.
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