"In a way, the best education you can get is just talking with people who are really smart and interested in things, and you can get that for the cost of lunch."

Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)

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"You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Woodrow Wilson

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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

Elementary Principles of Composition, The Elements of Style

I wish I’d brought Strunk and White to Nicaragua with me. I’m in editing heaven and would enjoy their company.

"Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is."

Marianne Williamson

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"if you want people to build a ship, teach them to
long for the endless immensity of the sea."

paraphrased from Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place … like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again."

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

.. suddenly this quotation feels relevant.

i realized yesterday that i’m sad about leaving this city and all that it offers.

ah, well. i’ll be back.

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