"The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars."

-- Elissa Schappell

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“Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.”
“I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.”

Source : "NBA legend to make keynote speech at ALA President’s Program". www.ala.org. November 6, 2007.
“If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.”
“Itâ€™s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people donâ€™t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.”
“I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.”
“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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