"I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two."

-- Natalie Portman

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“Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to huÂman beings is not examined in school?”
“Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact”
“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.533, The Floating Press
“In the oh-my-God-this-has-to-be-Christmas silence that followed, he struggled to reorder the last six months, to catch up with this reality they'd somehow missed. He wanted her. She wanted him. Was it true?”
“Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.”
“Paul Otrembaâ€™s remarkable first book,Â The Currency,Â is an intriguing foray into lyricÂ epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature ofÂ knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibilityÂ highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in theirÂ fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like LevisÂ and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.”
“It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.”

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