"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

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Henry Ward Beecher

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“I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I want to entertain people, but with some substance.”
“Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial,Â initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it â€“ although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.”

Source : Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.”
“We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.”
“I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.”
“Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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