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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Meetings

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• When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Memories, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Class, Rights, Way

  Nawal El Saadawi (1997). “The Nawal El Saadawi Reader”, Zed Books

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• Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.

  Gene Wolfe

  Struggle, Book, Reading

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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• Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

  Wilfred Owen

  Children, Study, Meant To Be

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Life, Positivity, Bad Ass

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• Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

  Edward Abbey

  Machines, Wilderness, Left Behind

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Warning, Chance

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1964). “Zorba the Greek”

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• Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Radiance, Way

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.119, A&C Black

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• And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Music, Song, Mean

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, February 1, 1999.

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• My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

  Eudora Welty

  Pain, Disappointment, Book

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• A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

  Confucius

  Views, Tree, Lions

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• Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

  Josh Billings

  Work, Procrastination, Today

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• I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Lying, Joy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.20, Vintage

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• If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Littles, Pistols, Silent

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1958). “Lolita”, Perigee Trade

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• I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Drama, Hate

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.129, Macmillan

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• In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Laughter, Fun, Live Life

  "Stand True and Faithful". Ensign magazine, p. 91, May 1996.

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• Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

  Shannon Hale

  Believe, Book, Character

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• They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Dark, Light, Hair

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fitness, Flower, Health

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.120

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• In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Special, Likes, Mystery

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.213, Penguin

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• guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

  Toni Morrison

  Vanity, Skins, News

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