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I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once let it.

— Robert Aickman Growing Boys (1977)

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Upon the passage to truth, cross-currents are to be expected.

Growing Boys (1977)

The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are luxuries are really poor substitutes for luxury.

The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)

It was, in any case, quite useless, and, like most useless things, useless almost immediately.

The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)

She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophistication.

Growing Boys (1977)

She was almost glowing with resolution. She realized that to display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualities.

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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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