"Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it."

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Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.23, Penguin

Taylor Mali

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“Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.”
“Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.”

Source : Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?”
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”
“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

Source : "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.
“I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.”
“The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.”
“It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.”

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