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Literature is a key to understanding human nature, social relations, and feelings.

— Évelyne Trouillot for Words Without Borders (2019)

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I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

Between us silence covers the wounds with a veil of peace and a soft breeze. (p19)

The Infamous Rosalie (2003)

Two crimson nights, followed by so many days of silence. (chapter 1 p34)

Memory at Bay (2010)

Always in the backs of their minds were their memories of an oppressive past, from which they could hope to break free only with great turmoil and agitation. (chapter 3 p100 )

Memory at Bay (2010)

This is a year not just to celebrate the past; it is a year to build, to change, to question, to recover our history and demystify it.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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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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