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Rachel Naomi Remen
"Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering." --
Source : Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Penguin
Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.”
“On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.”
Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”
“I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.”
“A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.”
“If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.”
“When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.”
Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.”