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  • #1
    Eudora Welty
    “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #2
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #3
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #4
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #5
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    Walt Disney Company, Mulan

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #11
    Julia  Whelan
    “But the hardest thing is staying. The hardest thing is living with dying. Loving with dying. The hardest thing is love, with no expiration date, no qualifiers, no safety net. Love that demands acceptance of all things I cannot change. Love that doesn't follow a plan.”
    Julia Whelan, My Oxford Year
    tags: love

  • #12
    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #13
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #14
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #15
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson



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