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Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important ...
The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.
I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.
...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.' 'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than ...
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the ...
I mean, you have to ask yourself, from the beginning, what do you think you know?" The
Once you engrave your name on something, you create history
Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest ...
You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that.
We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.
Many paths there be, to scale the mountain's height.But all who journey, see the same moon's light.
Smile whenever you can, cry whenever necessary
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate ...
I should have felt overwhelmed by emotion. I should have felt something. But despite my tears, I was numb. As if that black hole that ...
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her ...
Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.
To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
What has Procrastination ever done for you that makes you remain so loyal to it?
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.
Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.
I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ...
When you can't see God's hand, trust His heart.
In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.
One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching ...
Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.
So a law was made that any Christian might worship as he saw fit. This was the first toleration act in the history of America. ...
They say you always remember the big firsts in your life. I will never forget the morning I was outwitted by an almost-four-year-old for the ...
Just remember, quality assignments are the hallmark of effective teaching; teaching made up mostly of testing does not improve student learning.
Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and ...
You'll never be sorry that you did - only that you didn't
Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, ...
We came home because we were failures
How do you write a letter on the spur of the moment? And then post it? On the spur of the moment?
Wouldn't talking about something make it better understood?
What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.
Theur is no friend as loyal as a book.
Visionaries light the way. Pragmatists lead the way.
People open bookstores because they want their souls back.(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)
We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places ...
Orders. This report closely resem bles the Purchase Journal.
People have died playing this?" gasped Riley.Zayne grinned and replied, "Uh huh.""Only eight," said Estelle. "One in the last decade."Zayne said, "Hope you're not the ...
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
Has that obscenely rich fucker upset you again?
I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, ...
Don't you see? It's getting to us. The doll is messing with our feelings. I'm filled with all these thoughts of warmth and love and ...
Anxiety is like a telescope that captures light from distant stars that may have already died. Use it at your own risk to observe things ...
Thus, the entire rationale for overseas expansion was shaped in a domestic crucible. Economic need, Anglo-Saxon mission, and the progressive impulse joined together nicely to ...