Ian Laird
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“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
John Carey

Olivia Manning
“Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.”
Olivia Manning, Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

Nevil Shute
“She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done."
"That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.”
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

Owen Marshall
“I felt I lived my life on the bottom of one of those great, sea aquariums with species foreign to me passing as dim shapes soundlessly, and with their own fixed purpose, overhead.”
Owen Marshall, Owen Marshall: Selected Stories

Rudyard Kipling
“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”
Rudyard Kipling, Kim

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