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“I believe the best way to change the world is in concentric circles: start with yourself and work your way out from there.”
“Heroes are not supermen; they are good men who embody — by the cast of destiny — the virtue of their whole people in a great hour.”
“Too much success… creates a kind of quicksand that you can’t get out of.”
“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
book quotes, Pulitzer Prize, Quotes for Now, writer
In Memory: “Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller.”
In Memory: “The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.”
“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.”
In Memory: “A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.”
