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“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
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“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse
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Margaret Atwood
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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“Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
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