"There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence."

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Jon Scieszka

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“I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.”
“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”
“Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
“The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.”

Source : "The Works of Michael Drayton".
“I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.”
“I'm very happy with my body.”
“Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.”

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