I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

—Louis Sachar in Holes

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About Louis Sachar

Portrait of Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar ( SAK-ər; born March 20, 1954) is an American author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.

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It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women—a new job, a new town, a divorce—which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

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When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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