"Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human."

-- Storm Jameson

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“When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader.”

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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
“Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.”

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“You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want”
“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1984). “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”, p.6, Harvard University Press
“The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.”

Source : David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education
“What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?”
“It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.”

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