"Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement."

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Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan

Michael Dirda

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“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”
“The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.”
“Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.”
“Peace the offspring is of Power.”
“I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.”
“My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If I see a theme emerging in a story I will likely take it up and develop it. I hardly ever set out with a conscious plan and if I do the story usually takes over and takes me where it wants to go.”

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“When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."”
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”

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