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Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned o

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. – Dan Simmons

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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. – Dan Simmons

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Theres a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I dont believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. – Dan Simmons

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas. – C. L. R. James

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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with – since 1995 – is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. – Betty Buckley

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People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. – Doug E. Fresh

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Im hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. Thats what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think thats from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. – Jay-Z

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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson