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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson,
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
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#2
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
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Steven Spielberg
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#3
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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George Eliot
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#4
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
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Sarah Vowell,
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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#5
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
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A.A. Milne
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#6
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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Edith Wharton
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#7
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
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Philip José Farmer
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#8
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
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Colette
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#9
“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
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LeVar Burton
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#10
“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
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Jack Gilbert,
Refusing Heaven: Poems
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#11
“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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#12
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
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Anthony Burgess
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#13
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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#14
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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#15
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
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Jane Goodall
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“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
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Nikolai Gogol
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#17
“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
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Russell Banks,
Continental Drift
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#18
“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
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Julia Glass,
Three Junes
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#19
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
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Albert Einstein
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wonder
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#20
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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#21
“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
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Leslie Marmon Silko,
Ceremony
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#22
“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
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Ira Glass
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#23
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
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Dr. Seuss,
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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#24
“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
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N. Scott Momaday,
The Way to Rainy Mountain
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#25
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
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Victor Hugo
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#26
“That which you believe becomes your world.”
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Richard Matheson,
What Dreams May Come
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#27
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
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O. Henry,
The Gift of the Magi
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#28
“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
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Julia Child
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#29
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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Robert Frost
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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
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C.S. Lewis
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