"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."

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Source : Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

Gail Carson Levine

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“Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”
“I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.”
“Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.”
“I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.”

Source : "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.”
“The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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