"Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure."

-- Valerie Sayers

#Tragedy Quotes #Stories Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.”
“Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.”
“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
“We live at the edge of the miraculous.”
“Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.”
“I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.”

Source : "Banks Swings into Stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'" by Anthony Breznican, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2008.
“I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.”

Source : "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.
“I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.”

Source : "I, Too" l. 1 (1925)

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