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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

— Maeve Binchy

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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.

I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.

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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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