"Where you stand should not depend on where you sit."

-- Jane Bryant Quinn

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“Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.”
“You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.”
“The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.”
“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
“Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”
“No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists”
“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.”
“A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.”

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