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K’s Quotes

“But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.”
― Anne Tyler

tags: books, reading, writing

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“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family

tags: generosity, giving

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“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
― Harper Lee

tags: books, reading, thinking

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“Autumn was her happiest season.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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“Thank goodness my education was neglected. I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”
― Beatrix Potter

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