"Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures."

-- Terry Eagleton

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“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
“People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.”
“A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.”
“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?â€ â€œIâ€™ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.â€ Her brother cast her a thin smile. â€œI just hid it beneath all the debauchery.â€ She sniffed. â€œI wish youâ€™d hide it again. Itâ€™s quite annoying.”
“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”
“I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.”
“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”
“Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.”

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