If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

