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That I noticed right away was that there was a disinterest in literature, so I began to take them books with characters that looked like them

— Wayétu Moore

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Truth is the most humanist commitment we can make

To mothers who are writers, I’d say: give yourself grace

My culture is what most inspires my choice of genre

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

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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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