"D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys."

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Source : Frank Portman (2006). “King Dork”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Frank Portman

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“I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is.”

Source : "Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965".
“I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.”
“And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got through molding it. We can't help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don't know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.”
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.”
“There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire to perform live. That's something that a lot of actors and actresses don't get to experience on a regular basis.”
“The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.”
“Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.”

Source : Dennis Rainey (2003). “Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage”, p.142, Thomas Nelson

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