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If books are indeed magic (and does anyone really believe otherwise?), then they are a collaborative magic between author and reader.

— Jim C. Hines Libriomancer (2012)

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Hon, nobody eats fried chicken because it’s good for them.

Revisionary (2016)

Power makes people believe they’re invulnerable.

Libriomancer (2012)

If there ever comes a day when I deliberately embrace ignorance, I’ll have lived one day too long.

Revisionary (2016)

If a god ever decides to talk to you, the best thing you can do is pretend you don’t hear him.

Goblin War (2008)

The behavior of animals does not provide moral justification for human beings to do the same.

Codex Born (2013)

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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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