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“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
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Joni Mitchell
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“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
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Astrid Lindgren
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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
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Nadine Gordimer
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“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
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Bill Nye
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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
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Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands
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#6
“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
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Noam Chomsky
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#7
“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
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Amy Hempel
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#8
“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
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Edna O'Brien,
In the Forest
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#9
“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
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Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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#11
“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
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Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited
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#12
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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Abigail Van Buren
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#13
“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
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Lorrie Moore,
Like Life
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#14
“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
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Anchee Min,
Empress Orchid
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#15
“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
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William Congreve
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#16
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
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Langston Hughes
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#17
“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
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J.M. Coetzee
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#18
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
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Tom Bodett
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#19
“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
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George Moore
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#20
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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Irwin Shaw
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