"This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it."

-- Natalie Goldberg

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“The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.”
“People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship with those who have similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations, and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.”

Source : "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.
“When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.”
“I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being meâ€™s no joke.”
“Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.”
“If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.”
“I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.”

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