"He who best knows the world will love it least."

-- Honore de Balzac

“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
“The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.”
“The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.”

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“I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.”
“As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.”
“As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.”
“That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

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