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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: banned-books, banned-books-week, books, censorship, freedom-to-read, ideas, intellectual-freedom
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: banned-books, banned-books-week, books, censorship, freedom-to-read, ideas, intellectual-freedom
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
    8188 likes

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    Marissa Meyer
    “She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
    tags: cress, the-lunar-chronicles, winter
    388 likes

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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Stephen King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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