"Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up."

-- Terry Pratchett

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“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
“I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.”
“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press
“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”
“Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!”
“When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.”

Source : "Meet the $9 Billion Woman: Career Advice From Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 19, 2015.
“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”
“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”

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