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His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

Michael Finkel
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Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".

Mary-Ellen Peters
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Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

A.W. Exley, Ella, the Slayer
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I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

Peter Jackson
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And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.

Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
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Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.

Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
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It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Michelle Moran
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Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Tony Fernandes
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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
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