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It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to...more

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...more

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I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religiousorder. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr....more

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It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contra...more

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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

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I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of th...more