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“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, journalist, quoted in Ruminator Review (Spring 2003)

“The Reader's Bill of Rights
The right not to read
The right to skip pages
The right not to finish
The right to reread
The right to read anything
The right to escapism
The right to read anywhere
The right to browse
The right to read out loud
The right not to defend your tastes”
DANIEL PENNAC, French author, from the book Better Than Life

“Erase the lines: I pray you not to love classifications: The thing is like a river, from source to sea-mouth. One flowing life.”
ROBINSON JEFFERS, poet, quoted in a letter by the editor of Heron Dance

“If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America. . . .They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”
AL FRANKEN, comedian, in his new book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton)

“The most important act of peacemaking? Your next one. Few of us will ever be called on to do great things, but all of us can do small things in a great way.”
COLMAN MCCARTHY, journalist and peace educator, from an interview in Hope (July/Aug. 2003)

“WE ONLY SEE what we look at. To look is an act of choice.”
JOHN BERGER, art critic and author, quoted on Oriononline.com

“The only way for me to think and, therefore, act productively, is to view the people I have encountered as local-far away perhaps, but nevertheless my neighbors.”
ELIZABETH WHELAN, photographer, Iris (Spring 2003)

“You know, the courts may not be working anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.”
MARGE SIMPSON, quoted on Humorsphere.com

Compiled by Kyle Cohen, Candace Crockett, Anne Geske, Eric Larson, Adam Overland, Lisa Rodgers, and Joel Stonington

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