"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.“
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
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"It's funny to be a critic."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
-Timothy McVeigh
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"If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple."
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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."
-Richard Stengel
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"Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs."
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"I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies."
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
-Joe Davis
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