"I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal."

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“She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.”
“The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.”

Source : 'Strange Interlude' (1928) pt. 2, act 8
“One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.”

Source : "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”
“Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother”
“Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.”
“Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.”
“God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.”

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