"Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves."

-- Harold Bloom

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“When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.”
“My days are gone a-wandering.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 161-63, Grand Testament, 1922.
“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
“I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.”
“Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.”
“When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.”
“In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual.”

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