Storybooks aren't bread.

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An excerpt:

       "What do these children do without storybooks?" Naphtali asked.
    
     And Rob Zebulun replied: "They have to make do.  Storybooks aren't bread.  You can live without them."

     "I couldn't live without them," Naphtali said.

~ from Naphtali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus by Isaac Bashevis Singer