"I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Book Quotes #Believe Quotes #Long Quotes

“Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll”
“Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.”
“The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.”
“Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.”
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”

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