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#1

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”
― Beverly Cleary

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#2

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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#3

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#4

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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#5

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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#6

“Only the nonreader fears books. ”
― Richard Peck

tags: books, censorship, reading

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#7

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#8

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

tags: books, writing

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#9

“Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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#10

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#11

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: individualism, personal-responsibility

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#12

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: qoutes-to-live-by

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#13

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#14

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#15

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: conformity, eleanor-roosevelt, individuality

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