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Lincoln scoured the countryside to borrow books and read every volume “he could lay his hands on.” A book was his steadfast companion.
“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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