"In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize"

-- Arthur Hertzberg

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.
“We have to burn brightly. We canâ€™t burn forever”
“Can't really despise people you don't know.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.”

Source : "Women: How to Thrive in Financial Services" by Skiddy von Stade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.
“He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.”
“Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?”

Source : 'Ben Bolt'
“Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.”
“We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.”

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