Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall … - Teresa Mummert

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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Teresa Mummert

Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Book, Fall, Falling In Love, Handsome, Reading, Take

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Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.

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The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Down, Equally, Looks, Moments, Pedestal, Respecting

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Down, Fighting, Knock, Place, Trying, Up To You

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Believe, Should, Ifs

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Forgiven, Forgotten, History, Word, Written Word

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Sterling W Sill

People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.

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Zachary Cole Smith

I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element.

Compared, Disorganized, Editors, Exciting, Fashion, Mom

Louisa May Alcott

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

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James Thurber

Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

Car, Friends, Light, Neighbors, Old School

Laura Mullen

Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

Differences, Interrogation, Possible, Taken, Understanding, Writing