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    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    ― LeVar Burton
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    Rick Bragg
    “Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
    ― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'
    tags: compassion, dignity, poverty
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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”
    ― Ernest Gaines
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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
    ― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
    ― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    tags: boredom, perfection, utopia
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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Cassandra King
    “Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.”
    ― Cassandra King, The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle
    tags: books, life-lessons, reading-for-life, reading-secrets
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    Cassandra King
    “All southern girls are raised to be nice and polite, can't be anything but, regardless of how meanspirited we might be deep down. The illusion of sweetness, that's all that counts. We don't have to be sincerely sweet, but by God we have to be good at faking it. Southern girls will stab you in the back, same as anyone else, but we'll give you a sugary smile while doing it. -Corrine, "Same Sweet Girls”
    ― Cassandra King
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    Cassandra King
    “Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you’re lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you’re grateful to her […] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.”
    ― Cassandra King, The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle
    tags: mothers-and-daughters, wisdom-quotes, women
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    Helen Ellis
    “I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”
    ― Helen Ellis, American Housewife
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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
    tags: stories-writing
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”
    ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
    tags: humility, love, modesty
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
    ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
    tags: beauty, love
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    Umberto Eco
    “A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books, curiosity, knowledge, seduction, vice
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    Umberto Eco
    “A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books, fragile, librarian, protection
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    Umberto Eco
    “Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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    Umberto Eco
    “A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: mad-hatter, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: How long is forever?
    White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice-in-wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: dream, imagination, reality, war
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    Felicia Day
    “You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.”
    ― Felicia Day
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    Felicia Day
    “It’s hard being weird. No—it’s hard living in a culture that makes it hard.”
    ― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
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    Anita Desai
    “Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
    ― Anita Desai
    1320 likes



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