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Deborah Pickstone

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Deborah’s Quotes

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

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“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: poverty, violence

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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

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“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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