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This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to __erious_ courses replete with __rends _ and __chools _ and __yths _ and __ymbols _ and __ocial comment _ and something unspeakably spooky called __limate of thought._ Actually these __erious_ courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.

Look at this one._ I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked_complicated and hungry. She__ captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

Self education is holy mission.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.

Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

Young women are not putting themselves in danger. The people around them are doing the real damage. Who? you might wonder. The abstinence teacher who tells her students that they'll go to jail if they have premarital sex. The well-founded organizarion that tells girls on college campuses that they should be looking for a husband, not taking women's studies classes. The judge who rules against a rape survivor because she didn't meet whatevel standard for a victim he had in mind. The legislator who pushes a bill to limit young women's access to abortion because he doesn't think they're smart enough to make their own decisions. These are the people who are making the world a worse place, and a more dangerous one, at that, for girls and young women. We're just doing our best to live in it.

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!