To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something wo… - Aleister Crowley

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography · December 5, 1989 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

1929 reading journalism

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Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, mystic, poet, and social provocateur, famous for his development of the philosophical system called Thelema, and his concepts of magic, which he called Magick.

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Pen Names: H. D. Carr

Also Known As: the Beast 666 • Master Therion

Alternative Names: Edward Alexander Crowley • H.D. Carr • Therion

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