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  • #1
    Judy Blume
    “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
    Judy Blume

  • #2
    Judy Blume
    “The truth will make you odd.”
    Judy Blume

  • #3
    Richard Wright
    “Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
    Richard Wright, Native Son

  • #4
    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #5
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #6
    Randy Pausch
    “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #7
    Randy Pausch
    “The questions are always more important than the answers.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #8
    Bill Clinton
    “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
    Bill Clinton

  • #9
    “Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?”
    Marti Noxon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • #10
    “Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #11
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #12
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #13
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #16
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #17
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #18
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #19
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #20
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #21
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #24
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #25
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #26
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #27
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

  • #29
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #30
    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères



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