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“When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” — Patti Smith

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…born today in 1898! “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.” — C.S. Lewis

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“I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a window pane.” — George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

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“The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and […]

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“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.” — Richard Harding Davis, journalist and author (1864-1916)

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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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TODAY (Word carved on a stone on John Ruskin’s desk)

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Love this website. (And this one — Neil Gaiman’s Journal).

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“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.” — Thoreau

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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.” — Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832)

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