Leah Hager Cohen Quotes

#1. Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

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#2. He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

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#3. She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

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#4. There is nowhere morning does not go.

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#5. Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

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#6. I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.

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#7. In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

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#8. Who could ever tell a story complete?

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#9. For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

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#10. I have been too fond of stories.

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#11. In this day ... community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.

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#12. People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

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#13. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

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#14. The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.

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#15. We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

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#16. The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

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#17. The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.

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#18. The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension - this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

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#19. Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

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#20. Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized
so interpreting seemed to me. It seemed a kind of goodness.

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