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"Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer."
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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."
"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs-and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again."
"Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!"
"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."
"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."
"No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him."
"We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked-like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go."
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