"The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece."

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Alexander Chee

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“Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc
“One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.”
“My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.”
“I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.”
“I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.”

Source : "Farewell To All That: An Oral History Of The Bush White House" by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, www.vanityfair.com. February 2009.
“For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.”
“If you don't take charge of your transition, it is a dark and lonely road”
“A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.”

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