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  • #1
    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

  • #2
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #3
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #4
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Earth's crammed with heaven,
    And every common bush afire with God,
    But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
    The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #5
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #6
    Suzan-Lori Parks
    “And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
    Suzan-Lori Parks

  • #7
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #9
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #10
    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #11
    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    Tim O'Brien

  • #12
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons



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