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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: integrity
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    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    “Words are heavy...the words were stapled to her.”
    ― Mark Zusak
    tags: the-book-theif
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    John Boyne
    “Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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    John Boyne
    “Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? ”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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    Sherman Alexie
    “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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    Sherman Alexie
    “Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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    Sherman Alexie
    “I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    tags: age, childhood, family, parents
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Kennedy Toole
    “The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
    tags: fear
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    John Kennedy Toole
    “I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
    tags: humorous, ignatious-j-reilly, new-orleans
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    John Irving
    “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    tags: life
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    John Irving
    “My life is a reading list.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    tags: life, reading
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion
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    Colson Whitehead
    “Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
    tags: african-americans, dignity, race-relations, slavery, white-people
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    Colson Whitehead
    “Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
    tags: american-history, native-american-genocide, racism, slavery
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    Colson Whitehead
    “Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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    Colson Whitehead
    “The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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    Colson Whitehead
    “The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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  • #30
    John Irving
    “Logic is relative.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    98 likes



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