“A word after another word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway

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“Don’t fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.” – P.C. Cast, “Divine By Mistake”

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“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.” – Albus Dumbledore

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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” – Mary Oliver

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