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“Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.”
― Wit
― Wit
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.”
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“E.M. Ashford: And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting.
E.M. Ashford: Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause.
E.M. Ashford: In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.”
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E.M. Ashford: Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause.
E.M. Ashford: In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.”
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“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I want to write this down, that revolution is like
a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. And maybe for a short time,
we’re part of that history. And then the ride stops
and our turn is over.
We walk slowly toward the park, where I can already
see the big swings empty and waiting for me.
And after I write it down, maybe I’ll end it this way.
My name is Jacqueline Woodson
and I am ready for the ride.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. And maybe for a short time,
we’re part of that history. And then the ride stops
and our turn is over.
We walk slowly toward the park, where I can already
see the big swings empty and waiting for me.
And after I write it down, maybe I’ll end it this way.
My name is Jacqueline Woodson
and I am ready for the ride.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
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