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"I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now."
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"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."

"It's her black wings that make her beautiful."

"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

"The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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"Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."


"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."


"They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp."


"Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, You are." His holding fingers are holding hers. "Me? Me?"


"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"
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