"When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends."

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Source : Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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“Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.”
“The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.”
“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”
“Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring; Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.”
“Weâ€™ll fight Pacquiao, Iâ€™ll stop this fight [Carlos Molina] to fight Pacquiao. What would I got to do?”
“Write a page a day. It will add up.”
“What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.”
“How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!”

Source : Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

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