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Paul Neilan
“And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.”
Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories

Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville

Jorge Luis Borges
“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Mortimer J. Adler
“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

Alberto Manguel
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

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