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“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
― Jean Cocteau

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“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
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“O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks.”
― Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

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“Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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