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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #3
    Paulo Freire
    “True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”
    Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • #4
    Paulo Freire
    “The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
    Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

  • #5
    Lemmy Kilmister
    “People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

    [Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
    Lemmy Kilmister

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”
    Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #8
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #10
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #11
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #12
    Stephen Kinzer
    “It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.”
    Stephen Kinzer

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