"From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein."

-- Frederick Buechner

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“Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?”
“I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.”
“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“We cheerleaders are peppy and happy and get front row seats to the game!”
“Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.”

Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164
“It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.”
“I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.”

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