- Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.
- Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can’t, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That’s why I don’t review books.
- I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
- Writing is the only thing I’ve ever done with persistence, except for being married.
- Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.
- What was our life like? I almost don’t remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
- Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
- Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
- The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, ‘Am I doing something that’s worthwhile?’ Because even if you fail at it, you know that it’s worth doing.
- I’m trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that’s one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.
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10 inspirational richard ford quotes on success
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10 inspirational michel foucault quotes on success
- Knowledge is not made for understanding, it is made for cutting.
- I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
- If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
- The first task of the doctor is, political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government.” Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.
- Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
- The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
- Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
- One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
- Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
- Truth is not by nature free – nor error servile – but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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shania twain: birthday
Canadian singer
Born: August 28, 1965Shania Twain, original name Eilleen Regina Edwards, (born August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario, Canada), Canadian musician who, with her mix of country melodies and pop vocals, became one of the most popular crossover artists of the mid-1990s.
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Jason Priestle: birthday
Canadian actor
Born: August 28, 1969Jason Bradford Priestley was born on August 28, 1969, in North Vancouver, British Columbia. His mother, Sharon Kirk, was an actress and acting coach. He is a graduate of Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver. He has an older sister, actress Justine Priestley, and two step-siblings, Karin and Kristi.
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leann rimes: birthday
American singer
Born: August 28, 1982Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She originally rose to success as a country music artist at age 13 with 1996’s “Blue”. She has since crossed over into pop, contemporary Christian, and other musical genres. Rimes has placed over 40 singles on international charts since 1996.
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armie hammer: birthday
American actor
Born: August 28, 1986Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor. A son of the businessman Michael Armand Hammer and a great-grandson of the oil tycoon Armand Hammer, he began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.
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jack black: birthday
American actor
Born: August 28, 1969Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles.
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10 inspirational shirley jackson quotes on success
- No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
- On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
- Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
- I can’t help it when people are frightened,” says Merricat. “I always want to frighten them more.
- I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
- Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
- So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.
- All cat stories start with this statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…
- I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
- We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
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10 inspirational richard buckminster fuller quotes on success
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
- American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
- There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
- I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
- Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- You can’t change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
- I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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10 inspirational charles eisenstein quotes on success
- Trust your intuition and be guided by love.
- More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
- The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.
- No one’s ever completely broken. It’s just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
- One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.
- When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.
- The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
- Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
- We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
- There is a vast territory between what we’re trying to leave behind, and where we want to go – and we don’t have any maps for that territory.