What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.
Lynne TillmanDo the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
Lynne TillmanKafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.
Lynne TillmanAny writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.
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