Daniel Levin Becker quotes
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“There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.”
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“You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian”
-- Daniel Levin Becker
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”
Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
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“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”
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“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
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“The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.”
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