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No story is devoid of meaning, if you know how to look for it. This is as true of nursery rhymes and daydreams as it is of novels and epic poems.

— Daniel Quinn My Ishmael (1997)

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.

Ishmael (1992)

The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world.

Ishmael (1992)

Six billion of you wake up every morning and start devouring the world.

My Ishmael (1997)

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world’s divinely appointed ruler.

Ishmael (1992)

Any culture will become an obscenity when blown up into a universal world culture to which all must belong.

The Story of B (1996)

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