She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. ― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them. — Mark Twain

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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. -- Walt Whitman

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early red start twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? -- Walt Whitman

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When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. - Jean Fritz

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All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. -- Walt Whitman

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. --

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