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Ian’s Quotes

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

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“going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’ ”
― John McPhee, Assembling California

tags: kindlehighlight

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“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: adulthood, childhood

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“Many fine people were out there living, people whose consciences permitted them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever.”
― Annie Dillard (Author), The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

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“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.”
― Maurice Sendak

tags: adults, children, passion

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