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“Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence of course. And infinite sorrow.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“I hope you’ll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“There’s another option. You can consider the reader, not as a helpless victim or a passive consumer, but as an active, intelligent, worthy collaborator. A colluder, a coillusionist.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination