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“There were, he said contemptuously (...) only two stories, really:

A stranger comes to town

and

Someone goes on a journey.

(...) A woman (...) murmered a secret to me:
"Those are the same story.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch