Just 3 Quotes - 01.13.2020
3 quotes from 3 of my books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“One cannot escape from one’s own nature, although Henry said yesterday, ‘There are flaws in your goodness.’ Flaws. What a relief. Fissures. I may escape through them.”
—Henry and June, by Anaïs Nin
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
—The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967, by Hunter S. Thompson
“Have students sometimes asked you, when you whizzed through the derivation of the quadratic formula, (or the quotient rule, or the triangularization of complex matrices), possibly in a tone of grudging admiration, ‘How do you remember all that stuff?’
The answer, of course, is that you don’t remember it: you understand it.”
—What Is Teaching?, by Paul Halmos