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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.
You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me
Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.
I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.
Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.
What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.
Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.