My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed … - Amos Bronson Alcott

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Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

Amos Bronson Alcott

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

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I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

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One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

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Patrick Rothfuss

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

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