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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
― Audrey Lorde

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
― Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood