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“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
― E.B. White

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
― E.B. White

“In acquiring my gender, I had become offensive.”
― Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

“In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers”
― Kobayashi Issa

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
― Voltaire

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston