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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

— Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

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I feel a little whirl of dislocation—the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

And even if I fail—this is always the archivist’s consolation—perhaps I will have laid a foundation for someone wiser.

Sourdough (2017)

Belasco gave me a frank look. “A market in the Bay Area needs, at minimum, three things. It needs fancy coffee, weird honey, and sourdough bread.”

Sourdough (2017)

He has the strangest expression on his face—the emotive equivalent of 404 page not found.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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