"I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line."

-- Amy Hempel

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble”
“Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.”
“Personally, people know themselves very poorly.”

Source : Ernst Mach, C. M. Williams (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”
“I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.”
“When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.”
“The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.”
“You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.”
“As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.”

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