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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash