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oldschool-romantic
— Nina MacLaughlin
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{Quotes :Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami / Sarah Kay}
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“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
— Anne Sexton
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These books have been in circulation for decades. The purpose of these book bans is to show that authoritarians want submission.
White supremacy has so much shame that their need for suppression of truth is endless.
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““Fiction forgives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people…”
— Neil Gaiman
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"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
- John Burroughs
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
— Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (b. 2 June 1840)
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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 22 May 1859)
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
— Angela Carter (b. 7 May 1940)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. Claude Monet
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“What labels me, negates me.”
— Søren Kierkegaard (b. 5 May 1813)
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“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
— Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
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“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
— Albert Schweitzer