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“When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.”
― A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
― A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― My Life in Middlemarch
― My Life in Middlemarch
“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”
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“In crisis, I circled my wagons, more afraid of being disappointed by someone than going it alone.”
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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our kind-of bimonthly-ish opportunity to get together with ladies we love and admire to bond, read, chat, share, and learn from each other
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