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“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.” — John Ashbery

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“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?” — Russell Hoban

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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” — Lord Byron

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“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“All the fun’s in how you say a thing.” — Robert Frost, poet If you are looking for a fun book blog, check out Bookie Woogie.

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“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist (1841-1935)

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“The library is a sort of autobiography in which we can read ourselves and others can read us.” — Alberto Manguel

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“The Internet may be the world’s greatest library, but let’s face it, all the books are scattered on the floor.” — D.C. Denison

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“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937) We’ve started the Oregon Battle of the Books at my school, and by “we” I mean our two incredible volunteers, Jenny […]

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