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"Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid."

— Don DeLillo Mao II (1991)

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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

End Zone (1972)

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

Mao II (1991)

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

The Names (1982)

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

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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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