Carl Sagan in a red turtleneck standing in front of an image of a galaxy.

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1. Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 09:54:50 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

   “What an astonishing thing a book is… one glance at it & you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly & silently inside your head, directly to you.

   Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. #Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

   - Carl Sagan