Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' - Lev Grossman

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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. ― Alan Moore

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. ― Bill Watterson

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. ― Plato, The Republic

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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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