"Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Laura Mullen

#Years Quotes #Gertrude Quotes #Syllabus Quotes

“You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.”
“For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you're here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That's the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children.”
“Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
“Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold (1860). “The Brownrigg Papers”, p.394
“We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.”
“Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.”
“When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War,”
“And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.”

Source : Peter Abelard, Héloïse (2017). “Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.40, Litres

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