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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."
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"When people asked what I wanted to be, I'd tell them a writer. They were surprised or indifferent. If people don't read, what is a writer?"
— Tomás Rivera
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