"An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah."

-- George Wein

#Kids Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Boston Quotes

“diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.”
“I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”
“It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.”
“I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.”
“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”
“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.”
“Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself”
“For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.”

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