"Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. You can't really do that with a novel, but with a story you're just left hanging."

-- Molly Antopol

#Fall Quotes #Moments Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.”
“The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.”
“I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.”
“I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.”
“The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.”
“I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.”
“The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

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