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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus...”
― Virgil

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay