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Black text on a white background: "A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of…

Carl Sagan Says Books Are Magic

A Carl Sagan quote calling books magic that breaks the shackles of time. A bookworm love letter for Xennials who grew up on library cards and Scholastic book fairs.

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Black text on a white background: "A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of…

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An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Photo of the gray lunar surface with a lunar module leg at upper left and a small reflector instrument tilted in the foreground. Caption text: "For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all mankind.' As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small… Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". A black bookmark lying on an open paperback. White text: "if you can read this..." Below is a square photo of a bloodshot yellow eye with a black pupil. More text: "you have invaded my privacy while i was reading and now i will turn around and shoot you dead." Red text: "goodbye bitch." A white smiley face is at the bottom. Illustrated row of colorful book spines on a wooden shelf, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kite Runner, Forever by Judy Blume, Huckleberry Finn, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bridge to Terabithia, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Giver, The Bluest Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, The Color Purple, and A Wrinkle in Time. Below it reads: I'M WITH THE BANNED A blonde woman with glasses in a red t-shirt sits surrounded by enormous towering piles of books, reading a large open book. Top text: "SOME PEOPLE PREFER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES." Bottom text: "OTHERS PREFER STARING AT MARKED SLICES OF TREES AND HALLUCINATE VIVIDLY FOR HOURS ON END."

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