I have read over a hundred books. And I have played, over a… - Walter Tevis

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I have read over a hundred books. And I have played, over and over, recordings of the symphonies of Mozart and Brahms and Prokofiev and Beethoven, and chamber music, and operettas, and various musical works by Bach and Sibelius and Dolly Parton and Palestrina and Lennon. This music sometimes, even more than the books, enlarges my sense of the past.

Walter Tevis

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Walter Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Alternative Names: Walter S. Tevis • Walter Stone Tevis

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