"We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it."

-- Melina Marchetta

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“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”

Source : Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”
“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”
“If a writer stops observing, he is finished.”
“The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.”
“It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.”
“When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.”
“The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.”
“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.”

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