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

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
― Anton LaVey

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
― Marquis de Sade

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest