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Categories should not act as straitjackets, and yet the magic realism label has sometimes strangled rather than liberated Latin American literature.

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (2022)

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People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…

It’s never as fun seeing the monster as much as imagining.

I am partial to quiet, slow, psychologically intricate work.

Noemí’s father said she cared too much about her looks and parties to take school seriously, as if a woman could not do two things at once.

Mexican Gothic (2020)

Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.

Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)

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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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