Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

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You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

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It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?

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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

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Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

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