Life Quote by William Deresiewicz

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“Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”

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“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.”

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“Getting A’s no longer means that everything’s okay, assuming that it ever did. “We have students, who, no matter what else is going on…

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