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I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: i was reading a book... i felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books i've loved.
-Nora Ephron
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I've Just Surfaced From Spending Several Days

Nora Ephron
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: i was reading a book... i felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books i've loved.
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