"In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world."

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Source : "Flight of Fancy" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2011.

Jill Lepore

#Citizens Quotes #World Quotes #Kindergarten Quotes

“It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.”
“You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.”
“You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.”
“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.”
“It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.”
“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
“All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.”
“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media

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