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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

Books are my weakness.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

My books are so tame!

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I cannot live without books.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.