Terry Tempest Williams

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    “There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.”
    —Ellen Terry (1847–1928)

    “And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
    Left here without the light I loved so much,
    In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.”
    —Petrarch (1304–1374)

    “The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)