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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum

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Topic

Vulnerability Taking risks

Author

Louise Erdrich

Source

The Painted Drum

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Harper, 2005.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

Judy Blume

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

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Topic

Growing up Adolescence

Speaker

Margaret Simon

Author

Judy Blume

Source

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Statement Type

Question Prayer

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Bradbury Press, 1970, ch. 5.

What do you mean, less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something-even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

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Topic

Nothingness

Speaker

Wilbur

Author

E. B. White

Source

Charlotte's Web

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Harper & Brothers, 1952, ch. 4.

You have been my friend... That in itself is a tremendous thing.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

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Topic

Friendship

Speaker

Charlotte

Author

E. B. White

Source

Charlotte's Web

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Harper & Brothers, 1952, ch. 21.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

The Lorax

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Topic

Change starts at home Changing the world

Author

Dr. Seuss

Source

The Lorax

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Seuss, Dr. The Lorax. Random House, 1971.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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Topic

Feeling empowered Decisions and choices

Author

Dr. Seuss

Source

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Seuss, Dr. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Random House, 1990.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts

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Topic

Being present Work and play Work Play

Author

Dr. Seuss

Source

The King's Stilts

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dr. Seuss. The King's Stilts. Random House, 1939.

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject only in outline, but that every word tell.

William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.

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Topic

Good writing

Author

William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.

Source

The Elements of Style

Statement Type

Writing advice

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Strunk, William, Jr. The Elements of Style. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1920, ch. 2, sec. 13.

Current Citation

Strunk, William, Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. Penguin Books, 2007, ch. 2, sec. 13.

All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation... Of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

E.B. White

Here is New York

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Topic

New York City Nuclear holocaust

Author

E.B. White

Source

Here is New York

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B and Roger Angell. Here is New York. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen though. That's the problem.

Benjamin Hoff

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Topic

Man and animals

Author

Benjamin Hoff

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hoff, Benjamin. "Spelling Tuesday." The Tao of Pooh. E. P. Dutton, 1982.

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there, he was put into a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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Speaker

Mrs. Rabbit

Author

Beatrix Potter

Source

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Genre

Children's literature

Statement Type

Warning

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne & Co., 1902.

Current Citation

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne & Co., 2012.

Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot.

Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are

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Topic

Imagination

Author

Maurice Sendak

Source

Where the Wild Things Are

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1963.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

Quoted in The Los Angeles Times

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Topic

Nonsense and bullshit

Speaker

Dr. Seuss

Source

The Los Angeles Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Dr. Seuss. Quoted in "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat." Interviewed by Miles Corwin. Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 1983.

Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."

A.A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh

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Topic

Writing

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

Winnie-the-Pooh

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen/Dutton, 1926.

Current Citation

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2017.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E.B. White

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Topic

Nature of democracy Democracy

Author

E.B. White

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.

E.B. White

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Children

Speaker

E.B. White

Source

Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

White, E.B. "The Art of the Essay No. 1." Interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther. Paris Review, Fall 1969, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4155/the-art-of-the-essay-no-1-e-b-white.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

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Topic

Vulnerability Inner life

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

The House at Pooh Corner

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen, 1928, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2018, ch. 6.

Commuter-one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.

E.B. White

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Topic

Modern life Middle class life

Author

E.B. White

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. "The Commuter." The New Yorker, c. 1982.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

A.A. Milne

The Record Lie

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Topic

Thinking for oneself Quotations

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

The Record Lie

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Milne, A. A. "The Record Lie." If I May. Methuen, 1920.