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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, power-of-words
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    James Baldwin
    “You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    C.S. Lewis
    “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: eternity, present, time
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: action, deeds, feeling, heart
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    C.S. Lewis
    “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: humans, psychology, tendencies
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    Roald Dahl
    “It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: children, parents
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    Eileen Kennedy-Moore
    “By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.”
    ― Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
    tags: ability, accomplishment, achievement, child, children, children-and-parents, love, parenting, parents
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: parents
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