"Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Emily Barton

#Teaching Quotes #Character Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.”
“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”
“It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.”
“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.”
“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”

Source : Maureen F. McHugh (1997). “China Mountain Zhang”, p.29, Macmillan
“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.”

Source : "Transmedia Storytelling 101" by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 21, 2007.
“You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'”

Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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