"I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling."

-- May Sarton

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“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”
“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.”
“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.”
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
“You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.”
“Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.”
“I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?”

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“Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.”

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