"The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that itâ€™s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading."

-- Richard Siken

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“What you believe and focus on becomes your reality.”
“Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.”
“I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.”
“To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.”
“I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
“The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.”
“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it”

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