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“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
― Barbara Cooney

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“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”
― Kara Walker

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“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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“Sometimes the best solution is simplification.”
― Bobby Bragan

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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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