Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
David MitchellAs long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
David MitchellStrip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
David MitchellHistorically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
David Mitchell