"Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar."

-- Isaac Goldberg

#School Quotes #Taught Quotes #Grammar Quotes

“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.”
“By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.”
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
“Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.”
“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy”

Source : "Funny As Fuck: Interviewing Louis CK in a Snow Castle". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. April 4, 2013.
“My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.”
“Being a girl was something that never really happened for me,”

Source : Ivan E. Coyote, Rae Spoon (2014). “Gender Failure”, p.21, Arsenal Pulp Press

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