"The meaning of the story is the story."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Stories Quotes

“Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.”

Source : "Women And Success: 26 Things Every Woman Should Know" By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.
“I want to thank everyone for believing in me, even though I only have 27,000 Instagram followers.”

Source : Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 26, 2015.
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.”
“I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.”
“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge
“I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.”
“It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.”
“Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.”

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