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There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical … The other is an outpouring of everything good in you … The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

John Steinbeck in a letter to his son.

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Celebrating the freedom to read with a virtual read-out of iconic banned books for Banned Books Week 2012, September 30 - October 6.

Among the selections once banned: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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If you are in love…don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.

John Steinbeck in a letter to his teenage son, some of history’s finest fatherly advice.