"Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all."

-- Louis Kronenberger

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“One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.”

Source : Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company
“I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,”

Source : "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.
“The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.”
“When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.”
“I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.”

Source : Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press
“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”

Source : "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
“Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, & empowers us.”
“My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.”

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