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Jon Krakauer Quotes: ...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
         

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.


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