"The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone elseâ€™s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadnâ€™t been able to see before."

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Source : "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

Katherine Paterson

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“I know I'm not musically talented,”
“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”
“Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

Source : George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker
“Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25”
“The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.”

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