The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected.
~ Jeffrey Robins from Gargoyles
(I have never seen a single episode of this show but now that I ran into these lines, I might consider it.)
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