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Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #love #moments #purpose

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. ↗

— John Barton

#ideal #knows #only #reader #who

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#me #processes #reason #separate #some

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death. ↗

— Tim Winton

#tim-winton #death

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#delivery #give #give me #i #interested

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#away #character #done #during #i

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#front #good #good news #hits #market

Always do one thing less than you think you can do. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#less #one thing #than #thing #think