"The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?”
“When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.”
“The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.”
“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.”
“The future of architecture is culture.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
“If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.”
“Pajamas are good for the soul.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2009). “When You Reach Me”, p.111, Wendy Lamb Books

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