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I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

— Carson Cistulli Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

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Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all—those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

A Century of Enthusiasm (2007)

Many people say, “Who's my doppelganger?” when maybe
they should ask, “Whose doppelganger am I?”

Assorted Fictions (2006)

Race ain’t nothing but a number.

The New Enthusiast - Selected Aphorisms #78 (2011)

If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that’s played with no one around to watch it, though — that’s a different proposition.

Day 468—said the word ‘finger’ until it no longer made sense. Now, looking at my fingers I have no idea what they are,
except they’re wildly useful
for writing letters to my earliest ancestors

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

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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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