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We are flooded with books; books come pouring out of the publishing meat grinder. And, the quality has dropped severely. We may be able to print a book better, but intrinsically the book, perhaps, is not better than it was. We have a backlist of books, superb books, by Margaret Wise Brown, by Ruth Krauss, by lots of people. I'd much rather we just took a year off, a moratorium: no more books. For a year, maybe two - just stop publishing. And get those old books back, let the children see them! Books don't go out of fashion with children; they only go out of fashion with adults. So that kids are deprived of the works of art which are no longer around simply because new ones keep coming out.

from The Openhearted Audience (1980) — Maurice Sendak

Language was like clothes; it could be a help to one, or it could give one away. But the most important thing was that one should not pretend to be what one was not. — Willa Cather

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth' ... — William Blake

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on. — John Cheever

For love I have invested my life with no return — Seema Gupta

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions. — Chester Barnard

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. — Mark Twain

Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude. — Denis Waitley

Ariya was tall and fine-boned, with large doe-eyes framed by long lashes. She moved about the one-story house with a self-possessed grace in her purple dress. We thought she would make a good model. She could sell anything but perfume, because she always had a smell: parsley, cilantro, chicken, goat, sour sop, shop cheese. — Jenelle Jack Pierre

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did. — Josh Homme

You may suffer many defeats in this life, but you will not be defeated.
You will rise after each trial
stronger and wiser. — Leon Brown