I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't … - Robert Hass

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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

Robert Hass

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

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