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Joyce Carol Oates

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

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"A library is chamber of treasures."

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"If we knew all the answers, we won't ask questions."

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"In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history."

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"In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude."

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"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

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Amber Hurdle

"No one knows it all. Asking questions about the things that you don't know doesn't make you unintelligent. You don't have a million years on earth to make all the mistakes in the world and learn from them. You can learn from better informed people, and save yourself the headaches that come from making too many avoidable mistakes."

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"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
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"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning."
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