"Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading"

-- Stephen D. Krashen

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“Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.
“The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.”
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”
“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.154, Algonquin Books
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.”
“There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.”
“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.”
“Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com

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