"To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut."

-- Lynn Emanuel

#Book Quotes #Desire Quotes #Identity Quotes

“And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.”
“A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.”

Source : Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press
“The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.”
“When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.”

Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?”
“Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.”
“It doesnâ€™t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. Itâ€™s not what you say that prompts itâ€”itâ€™s the fact that you are saying it.”
“We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don't need people to tell me that.”

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