If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
Maurice Sendak

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I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence.
Oliver Jeffers
I realised these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
Jack Kerouac, On The Road

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The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.
The Tree of Life
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It’s the thing that lets us say goodbye.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes, but by no means always, find the way to do it. You must perceive the excellence that makes a good story good or the errors that makes a bad story. For a bad story is only an ineffective story.
John Steinbeck, after receiving the Nobel Prize for literature

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