“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”

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British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990

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“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

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“For a child who found herself transported overnight to other side of the world, where she knew no one other than her parents, books were my salvation.”

Qian Julie Wang (1987) Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer

"An Interview With Qian Julie Wang" in Penguin Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/qian-julie-wang-interview/

“It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

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“Harriet lived in Connecticut and influenced antislavery in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Harriet was a optimist who expressed her feelings by writing. Harriet was listed as one of the people who started the civil war. She started it from one of her books (It was the most influencial book in all of American History) However, Harriet was a very successful person and never stood down.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Little Foxes (1865)

“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“She is a dreamer… she lives in her own world. She imagines a lot of things that suit her psyche as an actor. She is a very genuine, warm and a very sensitive person… And no denying the fact a very good learner. It has been an amazing experience to work with her; she is a perfect actress.”

Rekha (1954) Indian film actress

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“I suppose I have a concern for this extraordinary, beautiful, amazing, exciting, taxonomically brilliant world that we live in, but we keep fucking it up all the time.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

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“Gutenberg made all history available as classified data: the transportable book brought the world of the dead into the space of the gentlemen's library; the telegraph brought the entire world of the living to the workman's breakfast table.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

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“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator

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“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”

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