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- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
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Fear dims when you learn things.
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I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
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Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
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He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.
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Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
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Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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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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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
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