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“Children are the strongest antidote to grief, not because of their unconditional love or their joy or because they take pain away, nothing like that, nothing like an inspirational quote embroidered on a pillow for your sofa. Children are the antidote because of their unrelenting needs, their continuous, voracious, narcissistic, selfish insistence on living, their unceasing demands that those needs, no matter how trivial, be met immediately and urgently.”
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“...the study of literature is, among other things, an opportunity to see the truth about oneself through the eyes of another person and the fact that great works from the past are resources for discovery, growth, and change.”
― Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts
― Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts
“She [Emma] pretends to herself it is instant anger her mother provokes, and she ignores the hurt beneath the fury, the pain only a mother can inflict that never goes away.”
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― Five
“We do ourselves no favors by pretending American history is either cheerfully grand or unrelievedly bleak, for American history is a human undertaking and is as subject to selfishness and greed, to cruelty and injustice, as we are in our own lives. Yet it is also true that the United States of America has grown stronger, freer, and more just when it has opened its arms rather then clenched its fists; built bridges, not walls; and understood that the promise of the Declaration of Independence includes not some but all.”
― American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
― American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
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