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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

— Carlos Fuentes

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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.

Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."

But perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror; nature rejects that order, preferring instead to proceed with the multiple disorder of the certainty of freedom.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

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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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