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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Becoming a scientist, Oppenheimer later remarked, is “like climbing a mountain in a tunnel: you wouldn’t know whether you were coming out above the valley or whether you were ever coming out at all.”
― Kai Bird, American Prometheus