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The books I write often feel like the books I wanted to read, but they didn't exist, so I brought them into being.

— Rebecca Solnit

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A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common.

I think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine.

I also read poetry—from Pablo Neruda to Warsan Shire—fairly regularly, and it keeps my sense of what words can do wide open and my sense of beauty awake.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey … but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000)

What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.

River of Shadows (2003)

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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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