"I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers are providing a kind of template or platform for thinking and imagining."

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Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

Lynne Tillman

#Thinking Quotes #Kind Quotes #Bothered Quotes

“Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (2016). “The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road”, p.361, Open Road Media
“Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 17, 2017
“The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.”
“Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.”
“Iâ€™m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
“Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.”
“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.”

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