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Now Frankie looked at the basset hound seal on the edge of her envelope and wondered briefly about her father’s society. It still existed, that was clear, and she wondered how it operated and what power it had on campus. But mostly (let’s ...more
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Harlan Ellison
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Alan Bennett
“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started to late. I will never catch up.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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Thomas Pynchon
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
Thomas Pynchon

Alan Bennett
“Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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