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You don't know what I'm all about
Like killing cops and reading Kerouac

— Blake Schwarzenbach

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Be a believer
Believe everything
You'll be right half the time

Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)

Everyone tells me they're crazy
Crazy people aren't so fucking boring
Wake me when you're through being cool 'cause I'm snoring

Dear You (1995)

The records I end up liking I don't like right off the bat. I want to call our next record Tenth Listen. That's the test.

If it's sad
you know it's true
God is glad on bluer moons
When your room is all you do
it comes to you

Perfecting Loneliness (2002)

Put my ear to the door
I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days
There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside

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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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