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“It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.”
― Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

“Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Fear of Music