"I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing."

-- Keith Gessen

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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”
“America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.”
“Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.”
“Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.”

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“If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.”
“The animal creation shall again gladden a new Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called them by name, and carressed them and mingled in their society. The Bible everywhere indicates that the new earth will be a counterpart of the old before the fall, so we must conclude that lower animals who were created before man and have been his companions before and since the fall will be restored with him in the "new Creation"”
“Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.”
“If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.”

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