"I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily."

-- David Levithan

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“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.
“Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!”
“I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...”

Source : Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville-West (2004). “The Garden”, Frances Lincoln Limited
“Iâ€™ll have your fathers make something special,â€ Holly said serenely. â€œIf it turns out we donâ€™t like him, Iâ€™ll cook the next meal for him.”
“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.
“Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?”
“Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.”

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