"A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable."

-- William Stafford

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“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.”
“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”

Source : "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
“My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'”
“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
“Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.”
“I was very good at kickball ... I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school”
“She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.”
“I do think that as I said before the canvas of action sequences and the way in which the sequences unfurl will be very unique and will be different than any movie we've made before, and that's what makes it interesting, what makes it [Doctor Strange] special, and what makes it worth pursuing, and worth bringing to life for the first time.”

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