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I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we don’t go to school.
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Erica Bauermeister
“Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”
Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero

Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Mark Twain

Nicholson Baker
“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before you is too large; but when your brain loses its spare capacity, and along with it some agility, some joy in winging it, and the ambition to do things that don't suit it, then you finally have to settle down to do well the few things that your brain really can do well--the rest no longer seems pressing and distracting, because it is now permanently out of reach. The feeling that you are stupider than you were is what finally interests you in the really complex subjects of life: in change, in experience, in the ways other people have adjusted to disappointment and narrowed ability. You realize that you are no prodigy, your shoulders relax, and you begin to look around you, seeing local color unrivaled by blue glows of algebra and abstraction.”
Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine

Amor Towles
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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