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Daniel Woodrell
“You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”
Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

Susanna Clarke
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

John Barth
“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
John Barth

Erasmus
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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