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Richard Yates

"When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too."

-- Richard Yates

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“If youâ€™re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel â€“ as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them â€“ wherever you go.”
“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.”
“Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.”
“I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me”
“For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species.”
“CafÃ© Gratitude offers an experience that expands what is possible for all peopleâ€“a great recipe for business. I've watched CafÃ© Gratitude grow and have experienced both the flavors of their food and their commitment to providing a sacred experience for their customers.”
“Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.”
“It didnâ€™t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other”

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