"When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text."

-- Ralph Fletcher

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“... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160
“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.”
“It's a very bizarre thing to have people very concerned with your life, but I don't mind it because all that says to me is that they care about the show, and I can't ask for anything more than that.”
“I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.”
“I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.”
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
“I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.”
“I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.”

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