Ruth Bader Ginsburg
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
More quotes and aphorisms
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm...It is not death that a man should fear...Love is never defeated, and I could add...America was not built on fear...A man cannot realize...I was willing to accept what I couldn't change...
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