"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."

-- Laura Linney

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Relevance is kind of a weird thing. If one does topical material, it makes sense to want to be relevant. But if someone talks about donut sprinkles, it's not quite as important. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision outlawing donut sprinkles.”
“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!”
“I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.”
“The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denialâ€”the truth only dies when true stories are untold.”

Source : Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie”, p.382, Head of Zeus
“When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried chicken, catfish, barbecue, collard greens, and sweet potatoes. These are excellent examples, because they are historically grounded. You can trace each dish back to the people who brought these food traditions to the South. Today, these foods are central to the core culinary grammar of the American South.”
“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
“Pressure point! Pressure point!”

Source : "Fevola denies indecent exposure allegations". "The World Today" with Rachael Carbonell, www.abc.net.au. September 9, 2010.
“Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?”

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