"There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began."

-- Daniel Levin Becker

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“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.”
“Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?”

Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”
“From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.”
“But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?”

Source : Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.”
“It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldnâ€™t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.”

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