"They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life."

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Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

E. L. Konigsburg

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“A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.”
“Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.”

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“I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.”

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“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.”
“The self is a dance, constantly in motion.”
“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”
“the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.”

Source : Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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