"When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

John D'Agata

#Jobs Quotes #Stars Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.”
“A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.”

Source : FaceBook post by Little Richard from Dec 18, 2015
“Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.”

Source : Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.115, JHU Press
“I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!”
“I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.”
“Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.”
“It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.”

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