"Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out."

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Garth Greenwell

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“We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.”
“But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.”
“Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.”
“Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.
“Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609
“But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.36
“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited
“Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.”

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