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I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

— Elvis Costello

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When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world, the circumstances will still be there.

WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.

Warning label on Almost Blue (1981)

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.

New Music Express interview with Nick Kent (1978)

They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason.

What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?

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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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