
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."

"The sand was littered with sunbathers laid out on towels, raw and pink and exposed, like sushi."

"The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence."

Pulchritude — beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More