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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -George Bernard Shaw
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February 2023

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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January 2023

"My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication." -Martha…
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December 2022

"It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown." -Iris Murdoch
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November 2022

"Perhaps living in a society where realism is the reigning literary form renders that society powerless against its own absurdity." -Fernando A. Flores
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October 2022

"I believe in my mask — The man I made up is me — I believe in my dance — And my destiny.” -Sam Shepard
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September 2022

Salman Rushdie was stabbed by a madman while on stage in upstate New York last month. All because he wrote a book that Muslim extremists do not like…
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August 2022

"Be ambitious for the work and not for the reward." -Jeanette Winterson
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July 2022

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” -Jonas Salk
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June 2022

"If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?" -Jeanine Cummins
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May 2022

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” -Joan Miró
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April 2022

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." -William Shakespeare
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