"I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go."

-- Elizabeth Berg

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“...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.”
“I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.”
“Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?”
“I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.”
“If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.”
“Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.”
“The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.”
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

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