"I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure."

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Erica Brown

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“No law is quite appropriate for all.”
“I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.”
“To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.”
“I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.”
“The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?”
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
“I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.”
“The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will”

Source : Delia Parr (2010). “Love's First Bloom”, p.10, Bethany House

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