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The peripatetic nature of my childhood compounded my teenage sense of not quite belonging, nudging me ever closer to books in an on-going search for home.

— Sarah Ladipo Manyika Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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" The future of Nigeria is no longer in it's army as some of us used to think, but in the oil business.

IN DEPENDENCE (2008)

I write for myself and anyone else who enjoys a good story and is eager to read about characters that are still underrepresented in literature.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

A book reads us as much as we read a book.

Is every, every?’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ I say, sensing her struggle with the words.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

I think as I grow older I am more interested in what happens in the next stage of life. And I’ve been reading a lot of stories about older men.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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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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