"An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story."

Reading, Books, Escape, Story, Reality

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"An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story."

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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Stephen King, American Author

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Roger McGough, British Poet

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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."

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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!''Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?''Ahmadinejad.''Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?''That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going.''Don't be so fresh, young man!''Gotta go,' he says to me. 'Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell.''Fall back, solider. Over and out."

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"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."

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"Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you."

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"It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.But I do not.I do not."

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"Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?"

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"Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is."

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"Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger."

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"The truth costs.Lies cost more."

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"And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts."

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"Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too.And I-I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone-I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him."

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