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“It’s like how everyone thinks I like tacos. We don’t even eat tacos in Panamá!” my dad said. “That’s right. We eat chicken and rice,” my mom said. “And seafood. Corvina as fresh as God makes it.” “Yes.”
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Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette
“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”
The Marquis De Lafayette

E.M. Forster
“I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere."
Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven."
"Will it?"
"If heaven existed."
"Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly.
"I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.”
E. M. Forester

Kakuzō Okakura
“Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.”
Kakuzō Okakura

Annie Dillard
“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Joseph Heller
“...and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.”
Joseph Heller

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