"Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#Mother Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The best things can't be told,”
“For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.”
“The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .”

Source : "Escape from Freedom". "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", Vol 1, No 2, 2006.
“Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!”
“I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?”

Source : "CBS's Pelley Grills McCain, Kroft & Couric Chatted With Democrats". www.newsbusters.org. March 10, 2008.
“We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.”
“Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.”
“No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!”

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