"I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem."

-- Natasha Trethewey

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“It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.”
“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
“I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.”
“Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.”
“All's well that carries on well”
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
“History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.”
“Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" by Ned Sherrin, 1995.

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