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Matt Pavia

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English, film, and American Studies teacher; co-author, with Tony Pavia, of "An American Town and the Vietnam War"; studied at Fordham University, Exeter College (Oxford University), and the University of Connecticut. Currently a grad student in American Studies at Fairfield University. ...more

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Mark Twain
“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Toni Morrison
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
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“...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.”
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Don DeLillo
“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
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