"Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here."

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Source : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 22, 2014

Sue Monk Kidd

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!”
“Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.”
“I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding.”

Source : "Kris Allen Photo Shoot - JustJared.com Exclusive!". JustJared.com Interview, www.justjared.com. May 31, 2012.
“Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.”
“If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?”
“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”
“I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.”
“Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.”

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