There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales … - Carmen Agra Deedy

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To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Carmen Agra Deedy

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

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I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

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Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

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Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

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If one mouse is a spark. . . then ten thousand are a conflagration.

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I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

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