The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Todd Strasser

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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.

Kate Braestrup

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Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends

Luis J. Rodríguez

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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

Thomas de Quincey

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Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.

Kelly Cherry

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I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

Loung Ung

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I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

Loung Ung

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