"I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other."

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Thom Gunn

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes

“When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.”
“It bothers me when I don't score.”
“There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.”
“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
“The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.”
“Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.”
“Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.”

Source : "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.

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