"I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be."

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Source : "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007.

Willard Wigan

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?”
“We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.”
“I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.”
“When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.”
“God has taught me that I can trust in Him. No matter what-whether things are good or bad-I know I can always trust in Him. And that has really allowed me to go All In for Him.”
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.”

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