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“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

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

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“An organism at war with itself is doomed.”
― Carl Sagan

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

“But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas