"Read for escape, read for adventure, read for romance, but read the great writers. You will find to your delight that they are easier and more joy to read than the second-rate ones. They touch your imagination and your deepest yearnings, and when your imagination is stirred it can lead you down paths you never dreamed you would travel. If you read great language you will develop, without your realizing it, an appreciation of excellence that can shape your life."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1980.
From Books I Read When I Was Young: The Favorite Books Of Famous People (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). Reprinted in The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Selected and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
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