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Curiosity is the most powerful incentive in the world. Why? Because it’s capable of overcoming the two most powerful disincentives in the world: common sense and fear.

— Walter Moers The City of Dreaming Books (2004)

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that’s all.

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It symbolizes the three components of power: power, power and power.

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‘A daring enterprise undertaken in a spirit of curiosity or temerity, it is potentially life-threatening, harbours unforeseeable dangers and sometimes proves fatal.’

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Writing is a desperate attempt to extract some dignity – and a modicum of money – from solitude.

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Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

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