"Looking closer can make something beautiful"

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Source : Cynthia Lord (2013). “Rules”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

Cynthia Lord

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“Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them”
“God said: "Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: "Man, you must be putting me on." God said: "No." Abe said: "What" God said: "You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run". Abe said: "Where you want this killing done?" God said: "Out on Highway 61.”
“Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.111, Northwestern University Press
“Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.”

Source : "The Mad Men GQ+A: Linda Cardellini on Sylvia Rosen's Extramarital Bombshell". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. June 12, 2013.
“when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.”

Source : Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993
“Truth is its own reward.”
“There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.”

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