We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the mos… - Maureen Corrigan

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We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own life stories and—equally important—to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others’.

Maureen Corrigan

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Maureen Corrigan (born July 30, 1955) is an American author, scholar, and literary critic.

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