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  • #1
    David Sedaris
    “If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
    David Sedaris

  • #2
    Will Self
    “Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”
    Will Self

  • #3
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”
    Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself

  • #4
    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  • #5
    Charles R. Swindoll
    “While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”
    Swindoll Charles R.

  • #6
    Charles R. Swindoll
    “To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.”
    Swindoll Charles R.

  • #7
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “What, what am I to do with all of this life?”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

  • #8
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “We real cool. We
    Left school. We

    Lurk late. We
    Strike straight. We

    Sing sin. We
    Thin gin. We

    Jazz June. We
    Die soon.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

  • #9
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Books are meat and medicine
    and flame and flight and flower
    steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
    and drumbeats on the air.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    tags: books

  • #10
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

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  • #12
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #13
    bell hooks
    “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
    Bell Hooks

  • #14
    Toni Cade Bambara
    “Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.”
    Toni Cade Bambara

  • #15
    Renée  Watson
    “And this makes me wonder if a black girl’s life is only about being stitched together and coming undone, being stitched together and coming undone. I wonder if there’s ever a way for a girl like me to feel whole. Wonder”
    Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together



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