"We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn."

-- Charles E. Leiserson

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“All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.”
“Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson”
“If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.”
“I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world.”
“... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.”
“What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past...”
“To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.”
“It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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