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    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    ― Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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    Carolyn Forché
    “The heart is the toughest part of the body.
    Tenderness is in the hands.”
    ― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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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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    Hank Green
    “Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
    ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
    tags: bad-idea, comedy, emotions, funny, human, humor, ideas, people, thoughts
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    Hank Green
    “Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
    ― Hank Green
    tags: inspirational
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