As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation.

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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- Herman Melville

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