"There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world."

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Source : Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan

Leonard Michaels

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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.”
“I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.”

Source : "Freddie Highmore Interview - The Spiderwick Chronicles". Press day interview, collider.com. February 12, 2008.
“A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.”

Source : Linda McQuaig (1996). “Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths”
“Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.”
“You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at me. "You need to tune it, get your frequencies in check, like a radio." "I would love to.Just tell me how." "It's not a matter of turning a dial. You have no on or off switch." He walked around in a large lazy circle. "It's something you have to practice. It's more like being potty-trained. You have to learn when to hold it and when to release." "That's a pretty sexy analogy," I said.”
“I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.”
“I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.”

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