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I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of re

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories. – Ron Rash

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Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day. – Dannii Minogue

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope

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“But” is a fence over which few leap. – German Proverb

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