"On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together."

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Gregory Pardlo

#Teaching Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.”
“It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.”

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“John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.”

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“I think it's important for people to just stay encouraged, and stay uplifted.”
“I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.”

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“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”
“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”
“The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.”

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