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Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. “What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?”

— Kage Baker The Sons of Heaven (2007)

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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

Sky Coyote (1999)

Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

Sky Coyote (1999)

Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

The Graveyard Game (2001)

When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

Sky Coyote (1999)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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