If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.


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Obviously that's a devastating experience. Once she is in many different places she's going to be ps...
MARSHA LOWRY
Too many people in public believe that once we rescue children from bad situations and bad families,...
MARSHA LOWRY
It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
LOIS LOWRY
There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the p...
LOIS LOWRY
The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearab...
MALCOLM LOWRY
His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
LOIS LOWRY
. . . blah blah blah and rhubarb.
BRIGID LOWRY
It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!
LOIS LOWRY
Jonas was careful about language.
LOIS LOWRY
The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; othe...
LOIS LOWRY
He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycli...
LOIS LOWRY
But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've c...
LOIS LOWRY
Call me The Giver,” he told Jonas.
LOIS LOWRY
No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things...
LOIS LOWRY
They can't help it. They know nothing
LOIS LOWRY
But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?” “I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from ...
LOIS LOWRY
He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.
LOIS LOWRY
If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
LOIS LOWRY
Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-...
LOIS LOWRY
He might make wrong choices.” “Oh.” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I see what you mean....
LOIS LOWRY
In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits a...
NATHANIEL RICH
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH
There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing...
NATHANIEL RICH
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You...
NATHANIEL RICH
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
NATHANIEL RICH
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest ...
NATHANIEL RICH
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a lit...
RICH SOMMER
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
ADRIENNE RICH
I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE
There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH
It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an...
RICH COHEN