"It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do."

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.”
“To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.”
“You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.”
“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.”
“New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.”

Source : Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada
“Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it”

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