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— Jamaica Kincaid"I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess."
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As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.
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