"If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!"

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Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

Bel Kaufman

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“I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.”

Source : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's doubled. And it's not even harmonized, it's all the same note! And I'm like, "Oh, that sounds epic." I don't know, it's just one of those arbitrary taste things.”
“Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.”
“There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.”
“God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
“Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.”
“One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”

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