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“These young readers felt things about books, which is why I call them great readers. Being a great reader has nothing to do with reading great sophisticated books or reading great long books or even with reading a great many books. Being a great reader means feeling something about books.”

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“દરેક વખતે આપણે મૂવ-ઓન નથી થતાં. ક્યારેક ટ્રાન્સફોર્મ થઈએ છીએ. ઘટનાસ્થળથી દૂર જવાને બદલે, આપણી એ જાતથી દૂર ચાલ્યા જઈએ છીએ જેણે દુર્ઘટના સર્જેલી. કેટલાક લોકો મૂવ-ઓન કર્યા પછી પણ બદલાતા નથી અને કેટલાકને મૂવ-ઓન કરવા માટે બદલાવું છે. માત્ર સમય નહીં, વ્યક્તિ પણ બદલાય, ત્યારે હાર્ટ-બ્રેક થયું સાર્થક કહેવાય.”

“When I hear the hypercritical quarrelling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs,—Mr. Webster, perhaps, not having spoken according to Mr. Kirkham’s rule,—I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”