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Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

He reflects that Chekhov has already mapped out the route by which one can approach a strange lady by paying court to her lapdog.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.

This is a good movie,' she said when snipers felled them both. I missed her already.

Feminism's crusade remains unfinished because examining the 'personal' is far more threatening than condemning the political.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...

But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself permanently in my memory.

May the dog-mother rut with a dead devil!

my room, and to rub his scent off me.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.