“Where words fail, music speaks.”
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“Home is where the books are.”
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“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
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“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
#WilliamGodwin #literarybirthdays
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“The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.” #WEBDuBois #literarybirthdays
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
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“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
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A picture of novelist and screenwriter Helen Fielding wearing a purple top and black trousers, seated on a white chair and looking to camera. Image: HFprofemail at en.wikipedia Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license.
Happy birthday to Helen Fielding, novelist and screenwriter, born on this day in 1958.
She found success writing the Bridget Jones column for The Independent newspaper, and developed it into a series of bestselling novels and screen adaptations.
www.instagram.com/helenfielding
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“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
#CharlesDarwin #literarybirthdays
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“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.”
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“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
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“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.”
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
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“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
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“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
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“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
#CharlesDarwin #literarybirthdays
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“I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.”
#CharlesLamb #literarybirthdays
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
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“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
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“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
#WilliamCongreve #literarybirthdays
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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
#WilliamSBurroughs #literarybirthdays
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“The artist works by locating the world in himself.”
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“You are all a lost generation.”
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“America is my country, and Paris is my home town.”
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“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
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“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
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“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."
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