"With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory."

-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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“Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.”
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.”
“Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.”
“I can't not be who I am.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
“For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.”
“We in Europe have great capacities.”
“Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.”

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