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“And someday we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look at them. “

“Take it where you can find it, in old photograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; Look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of of the 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 stitch the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.