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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ”
― Alvin Toffler

“Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for a moment.
"No," he said eventually, "what?"
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Ar sievu strīdēties ir tas pats, kas sivēnu skūt - troksnis liels, bet jēgas nekādas.”
― Jānis Valks, Verķumāte

“I’m the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don’t blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.”
― Stephen King, It

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It

“If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
― Franz Kafka

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
― Primo Levi