"Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience."

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Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.74, Syracuse University Press

Deborah Tall

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“The early church didnâ€™t say, â€˜Look what the world is coming to!â€™ They said, â€˜Look what has come into the worldâ€™!”
“Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.”
“I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.”
“Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?”
“Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.”
“Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.”
“I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.”

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