"Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began."

-- John Dufresne

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“Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.”
“When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.”
“What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.”
“If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.”
“Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.”

Source : "Carl Woese, Evolution's Golden Revolutionary". Interview with Suzan Mazur, www.scoop.co.nz. October 4, 2012.
“The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.”
“If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.”
“I've never met anyone that is their image.”

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