

“Teaching is a funny business; you want to share these glimpses of something real and profound, but half the time students want only to know their next assignment and what they will need to study for the test.”
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
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