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Ray Bradbury
“You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

H.G. Wells
“The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.”
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Stephen Fry
“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
Stephen Fry

Oscar Wilde
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
oscar wilde

H.G. Wells
“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
H.G. Wells

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