"[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint."

-- Mary Russell Mitford

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“Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.”
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.”
“In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.”
“My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.”
“Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?”
“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.”
“All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.”
“Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?”

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