Gary Paulsen Quotes
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A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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School didn't work for me. I hated it.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left,…
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I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
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Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of…
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I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
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Read like a wolf eats.
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I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it…
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...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this…
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He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now,…
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He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he…
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I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.
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This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few…
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The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.
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Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
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He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave…
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We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget…
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And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
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If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light…
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