"For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me."

-- Betsy Byars

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“As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”

Source : Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.95
“I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'”
“Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.”
“I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.”

Source : Loretta Chase (2004). “Miss Wonderful”, p.249, Penguin
“If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.”
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
“Challenge everything, assume nothing.”

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