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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The world has become a playground of idiots and zealots, where the ever-shrinking centre of reasonable men must work harder and harder to keep the lights on and the bombs from going off.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Necromancer's House

“Despair keeps no clocks. If you ask him the time, he will always say it is too late to complete your journey. He will tell you his is the last stop there is, anywhere. Do not trust the wily old shopkeeper. Instead, rest a while and thank him for his stories of lost glory. Then it is best to be on your way.”
― Alvin Pang, What Gives Us Our Names

“...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

“That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.”
― Thomas Keneally

“You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“In The Divine Comedy, Dante’s depiction of the Inferno is more intense and dramatic than his narrative on Paradise. Dante cannot help but imagine himself torturing the dwellers of hell. Here are the literary grounds for my suspicion that what we expect from God is not so much that he accept us into his heaven but that he send our enemies to hell.”
― Ahmet Altan, I Will Never See the World Again

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle