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My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,
Sally Gardner
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God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.
Edward Gorey
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
Guy Davenport
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Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
E. L. Konigsburg
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I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.
Jim Benton
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If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. — from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
Chris Van Allsburg
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I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.
Alexis De Veaux
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Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?
Kevin Henkes
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Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
Ludwig Bemelmans
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Drawing is giving yourself up to an exercise with no immediate application. It is a form of communion with your subject, be it in front of you or in your head. Expertise and skill go hand in hand with your desire to express feelings, to tell stories, to create and share worlds. It's personal.
John Howe (illustrator)
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Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
Tove Jansson
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Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.
Lois Ehlert
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The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before... but the Little House stayed just the same.
Virginia Lee Burton
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Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
Elizabeth Enright
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Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.
Arnold Lobel
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No one mirrors his age clearer than the artist, for here is the living moment made concrete, the particular made general.
John Minton
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I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.
Charles Keeping
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The artist's main business is to train his eye to see, then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing.
John Nash
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
Nicolas Bentley
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Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
David Shannon
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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
Chris Priestley
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Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.
Mary Engelbreit
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The day I joined this Israeli and Arabs youth movement, my life began to get complicated. Suddenly it was no longer black and white.
Jonathan Kis-Lev
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What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
Frederick Franck
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The amount of time it takes to provide is threefold for families whom have to make due with very little. … Children from poor households learn to have very low expectations of themselves and their future because they believe that the world around them doesn't expect much from them either. In India, children of the lower castes are taught still today that once poor always poor so they don't think to become doctors or lawyers because their last name may not be Gupta or whatever other typically higher caste name there may be in India.
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
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