"I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult."

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Lydia Davis

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“I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.”
“If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.”
“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
“Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.”
“If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.”
“Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind.”
“There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5”, p.17, Macmillan
“One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.”

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