"The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary."

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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.”
“The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.”
“Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.”
“What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?”
“What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?”
“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.”
“Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.”

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