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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolution.

— Jasper Fforde Something Rotten (2004)

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To fail spectacularly is a loser’s paradise.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about.

Something Rotten (2004)

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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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