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“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.”
― Pete Hautman