"I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it."

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Scott McClanahan

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“He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.”
“You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!”
“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”
“I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.”
“What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.”
“Alex touches her arm. "You look nice." "Nice?" she repeats. "Try harder, Alex." He flushes adorably. "Really nice," he says. "Next time, try this," Harry says. He reaches for my hand. "Franny, I didn't know what beauty was until I saw you walking toward us a minute ago. "I like this better," I say, pulling away. "At least he sounded like he meant it." "I meant it," Harry says, almost irritably.”
“A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.”
“I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.”

Source : John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

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