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Mortimer J. Adler
“If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.”
Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Jean-Dominique Bauby
“When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.”
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

Katherine Applegate
“Rachel anaknya jangkung, cantik, rambutnya pirang, dan tak kenal takut. Yah, jauh di dalam lubuk hati sih ia juga merasa tidak aman, cemas kalau-kalau ia tak bisa beradaptasi, dan tertekan karena harus hidup memenuhi standar tinggi yang ditentukannya sendiri. Tapi semua itu tersembunyi jauh di dalam. Jauh sekali, sehingga jika kau berusaha mencapainya, ia akan mencincangmu sebelum kau bahkan bisa mendekat.”
Katherine Applegate

Santosh Kalwar
“I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone.”
Santosh Kalwar

“Kendall decided to be a singer on the Big Time Rush Concert Stage”
Scott Fellows, Sleepover and Over (Fairly Oddparents!
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Deyth Banger
“As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of...”
Deyth Banger
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Roland Barthes
“For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches—and I recall that at first photograph implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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