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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."

"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."

"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."

"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."

"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."

"Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
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"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
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