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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann

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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Albert Camus

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“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.” Elie Wiesel

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“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” W.E.B. Du Bois

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway

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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury

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“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.” Roald Dahl

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” David Foster Wallace

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