"I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans."

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Robert Dessaix

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“Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me.”
“So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.”
“I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.”
“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”
“Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.”
“For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.”

Source : Michele Jaffe (2006). “Bad Kitty”, p.40, Penguin UK
“The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.”
“If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.”

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