"I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley."

-- Molly Antopol

#Reading Quotes #Grace Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.”
“So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.”
“They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it." "So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast-- boom boom BOOM.”
“I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.”
“We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”

Source : "Just In From Mainstream: Barack Is As Thick As A Brick". www.wnd.com. August 24, 2012.

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