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Each day and night of those weeks could fill a book, if only the pen could take on this burden of despair and helpless loneliness.

— Ida Fink A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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What our cousin experienced, locked up in that room, will remain forever a mystery.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

The execution itself did not take long; more time was spent on the preparatory digging of the grave.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Some questions should not even be thought. The facts alone suffice.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

He had that horrifying clarity of vision that comes just before death.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

This time was measured not in months but in a word-we no longer said "in the beautiful month of May," but "after the first 'action,' or the second, or "right before the third."

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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

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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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