As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

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I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. ― Ruta Sepetys

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There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. ― Aaron Lauritsen

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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

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In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies! - Wally Amos

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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