"Who would desire peace should be prepared for war."

-- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.”
“I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.”
“Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains had been incapable of graspingthe notion of one man standing up against the whole world...................To me it was the ultimate book: once youhad read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
“Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.”

Source : "Interview: Playwright Katori Hall Reaches for King’s Mountaintop". Interview with Lonna Saunders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.
“Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.”
“The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.”
“Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!”

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