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You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
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...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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