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I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.

— Philip Ó Ceallaigh Notes from a library bar (2006)

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I called the boss a ‘fucker’ one day – not to his face, but it got back to him – so that was the end.

Notes from a library bar (2006)

I think if you've got something to say and you can say it with less, that's the way to go.

Notes from a library bar (2006)

I don't want to become the kind of writer who's putting out a book every two years. Money is not my primary concern. I've been broke before and I'll do it again.

Notes from a library bar (2006)

Tolstoy's War and Peace is overblown – do yourself a favour and read his Death of Ivan Ilych.

Interview by Tom Vowler (2010)

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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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