Gilbert Liedke

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David McCullough
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”
David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

Lynne Truss
“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.” Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant,”
Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

John Rachel
“We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.”
John Rachel, A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

Ursula K. Le Guin
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won't move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it ... To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it--everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not interactive with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer's mind. No wonder not everyone is up to it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

Malorie Blackman
“When did we stop being people, being human?”
Malorie Blackman, Knife Edge

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