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People may gain from literature what they cannot get from their own lives. It’s not escapism but rather a kind of openness.

— Adania Shibli Interview (2020)

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Differences between people are used to commit injustice—that was an early lesson about racism.

Interview (2020)

Femininity to me is about the opposition to power and order in the sadistic fashion.

Interview (2017)

It is within such structures that I feel a grand narrative can exist, like a dictatorship—solid, like the worst tyrant.

Interview (2020)

I’m not striving for abstraction, but precision—where the words that want to be in the text can find their place in it.

Interview (2020)

I’m fascinated by what borders try to prevent, and why. And sometimes by how their meaning and the perception of them shifts from one situation to another.

Interview (2020)

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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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