"...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed."

-- Xenophanes

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“Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotteâ€™s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Allyâ€™s model book. â€œI like the family that comes together in the barn,â€ Ally said without hesitation. â€œI like that they arenâ€™t all the same thing; one is human and oneâ€™s a spider and oneâ€™s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.”
“True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.”
“Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.”
“Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.”
“There are no immovable barriers to education.”
“Never before have I imagined my life without himâ€”like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.”
“A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.”
“After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.”

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