"Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you."

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Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

Alexander Chee

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.”
“We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.”

Source : Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, February 1, 1924.
“We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.”
“Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.”
“We have a stewardship responsibility to keep ourselves healthy physically and emotionally. If we don't, we cannot carry out our obligations to God, to family, to our employer, or to others. With this in mind, we put limits on the extent to which we allow others to abuse us. Doing right will mean abuse part of the time; that goes with the turf. But inviting abuse or failing to deal with it is wrong.”
“Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.”

Source : Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.”
“In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.”

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