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"Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?"
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"It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
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"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."
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"We often know information but not the epistemology of that information."
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"Failure is the school of greatness."
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"We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher."
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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
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"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
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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."
Creativity
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."
Empowerment
"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."
Freedom
"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?"
Literature
"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."
Art
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."
Love
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
Empathy
"I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read."
Education
"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
Life
"You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose."
Identity
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