"Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult

Maxine Kumin

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“The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.”
“I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”
“I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...”
“Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.”
“It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.”
“It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.”
“When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.”
“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”

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