"Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums."

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Source : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.151, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Julie Schumacher

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“You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.”
“Taste and good-nature are universally connected.”
“I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.”
“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do...”
“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”
“Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?”
“I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998
“Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.”

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