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“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984