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“Creemos en los actos cotidianos de valentía, en el coraje que impulsa a una persona a defender a otra.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Everybody knows that no healthy person would take up writing novels. Healthy people do healthy things. All this darned hoopla and hot air about literature—what is it really but mental derangement run through a printing press?”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

“Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield