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“How awful!” said Bill. “Why do you do it?” “Oh, because it gives one such a noble feeling to suffer for one’s silhouette.
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Jo Walton
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
Jo Walton, Among Others

W.G. Sebald
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

Bram Stoker
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula

John Wyndham
“Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness...”
John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

Murray Leinster
“the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death”
Murray Leinster, The Pirates of Ersatz

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