"Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
“At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos. I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian.”

Source : "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.
“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”

Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”
“This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”
“I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.”

Source : "Jessica Hecht’s Party Lines". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 08, 2013.

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