"In every reading life, certain works are talismans, especially those read in early years."
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January 1, 1970

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Shirley Hazzard, "Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide" (2000), in We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays, edited by Brigitta Olubas (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), p. 90.