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“So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.”
― Claire Nouvian, The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me.”
― Jonathan Hull, Losing Julia

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Sometimes, at the end of everything, the only option you have is to make it worse.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Tell Me I'm Worthless