"A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself."

-- Doris Lessing

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.”

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“Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.”
“Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
“No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.”
“My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.”
“We can love someone without understanding that person.”

Source : Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.133, Routledge
“Sometimes it’s just surreal out there, while you’re running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It’s an awesome show of camaraderie and community.”
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.”

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