“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
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“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play
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