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The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

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And I think about all the things we could be if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

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Jody’s Quotes

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

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“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

tags: philosophy, self-knowledge

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“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

tags: gender-stereotypes, transgender

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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: books, ideas, impact, readers, reading

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