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“Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?”
― Hillary Jordan, When She Woke

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with it. It arrives without references, without credentials we can trust. Givers of prizes (not to mention critics) do the best they can, but they may—they probably will—be scoffed at by their children’s children. We, the living readers, whether or not we’re members of juries, decide, all on our own, if we suspect ourselves to be in the presence of greatness. We’re compelled to let future generations make the more final decisions, which will, in all likelihood, seem to them so clear as to produce a sense of bafflement over what was valued by their ancestors; what was garlanded and paraded, what carried to the temple on the shoulders of the wise.”
― Michael Cunningham

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a way to prevent it, and I didn't see any ideas in the thread either (I did skim though).

I hope you'll appreciate that if we just start deleting ratings whenever we feel like it, that we've gone down a censorship road that doesn't take us to a good place.”
― Otis Y. Chandler

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.”
― Charles McGrath

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”
― Isabel Allende

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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― K.J. Charles

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?"

"I'd much rather live quietly for one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard