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Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

— James Tiptree Jr.

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Eerie blue, the wide old eyes reminded him of a place he had never seen.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

Because dying, any time, is an experience you don’t survive.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

Somewhere in his head a couple of neurones twitched, but they didn’t connect.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

If it worked it would be like trying to wipe your eye with a blowtorch.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

What if a person is sure of his identity but it isn’t his identity?

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

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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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