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    Helene Hanff
    “Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”
    ― Helene Hanff, Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
    tags: books, bookstore, library
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality
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    Joan Bauer
    “We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.”
    ― Joan Bauer
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    ― Geraldine Brooks, March
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    John Knowles
    “There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Emmuska Orczy
    “The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
    ― Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Mark Haddon
    “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: life, prime-numbers
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    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    ― L. Frank Baum
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    Hettie Jones
    “are you breathing, are you lucky enough
    to be breathing”
    ― Hettie Jones
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Terry McMillan
    “Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
    ― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy
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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    ― Beryl Markham
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    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    ― Henry Green
    tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
    1565 likes



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