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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse." --
Source : "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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“It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.”
“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.”
Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
“If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.”
“Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.”
“One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.”
Source : "Life’s Work: An Interview with Ruth Reichl". Interview with Alison Beard, hbr.org. June 2014.
“I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.”
“I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.”
Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.”