"I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant."

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.”
“My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.”
“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”
“The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.”
“We are powerful magical beings.”
“I love what I do, so I don't mind working.”
“Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.”

Source : Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.26, Library of America
“Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.”

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