"Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories."

-- Sara Paretsky

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Way Quotes

“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”

Source : "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.
“Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.”
“There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently Americans thought the names of places were just too complicated so they got decent maps of Baghdad and just renamed everything with familiar names. This neighborhood would be Hollywood, that neighborhood would be Manhattan, and that one's Madison, you're going to drive down Oak and take a left on Main Street.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.159, MIRA
“If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.”
“An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”

Source : Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.226, Macmillan
“I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.”
“Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hyman Roth". "The Godfather Part II", 1974.

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