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People who don't read think they're missing out on entertainment. What they're actually missing is other people's lifetimes of hard-won thinking, handed to them for $15.
Lovecraft was paid $0.005 per word. He died in 1937 broke and almost unknown, published almost entirely in pulp magazines. He asked to be buried in a pauper's grave. Today his estate generates millions annually and his hometown puts his face on everything.
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the exploitation of immigrant workers. America responded by demanding better food inspection. The workers were forgotten. Sinclair wrote: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit it in the stomach."
There's a specific kind of person who keeps their most important books within arm's reach of the bed. Not for decoration. Because those are the ones they go back to when things get hard. You know who you are.
Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor. He entered prison the most celebrated writer in England. He left broken, in debt, and in exile. He died three years later in a Paris hotel room. The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence against him in court.
The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual was classified for 70 years. When it was finally declassified in 2008, people's first reaction wasn't shock. It was recognition. The tactics designed to destroy enemy organizations from the inside looked exactly like normal corporate life.