"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."

-- Manuel Puig

#Teaching Quotes #People Quotes #Madness Quotes

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”
“I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.”
“Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, weâ€™ll get it right.”
“Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.”

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.
“You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.”
“I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.”

Source : "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.
“Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!”
“The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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