29 Quotes by Julius Lester


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    I’m tired of thinking and I’m really tired of Feeling. – Jenna Richards.

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    It ain’t how long you know somebody that means anything. It’s what that person mean to you in your heart.

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    Just because she’s dead it doesn’t mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It’s just her body that left. The love didn’t. – Jenna Richards.

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    But I want you around even when I don’t need you. – Jeremy Richards.

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    Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

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    Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings.

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    To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

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    Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don’t believe anything, and you’re in the worst kind of despair.

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