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“Large, general questions about meaning, etc., can only be answered with generalities, which make me uncomfortable, because it is so hard to be honest when you generalize. If you skip over all the details, how can you tell if you’re being honest or not?”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the words are understood, isn’t changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning of Huckleberry Finn is.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Historically, polarization and populism--and their close traveling companions, extremism and authoritarianism--emerge from the politics of cultural despair.”
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“It was funny, she thought, how many relationships one could have with the same man, over the course of a lifetime together.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Norman North Readers
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— last activity Feb 14, 2011 09:55AM
This group is designed for Norman North High School students and teachers to have a place to talk about books.
ELO-AYA ELA
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— last activity Jun 04, 2010 10:31AM
This group is for NBCTs and NBPTS candidates. We can talk about books that have been helpful in the craft of teaching.
High School English Teachers
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— last activity Oct 30, 2024 02:06PM
A group for high school English teachers to talk about books they love reading, and books they love teaching
MACI-4 Readers
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— last activity Feb 11, 2010 08:14PM
This group is open to all members of the MACI-4 cohort. We'll share our pleasure-reading books and our professional books. ...more
Q&A with David Levithan
— 154 members
— last activity Aug 09, 2018 02:59PM
Join bestselling author David Levithan for a discussion of fiction, form, and much more. David is the author of many hugely popular books, including W ...more
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