"As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Joseph Boyden

#Needs Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.”
“Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.”
“One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.”

Source : "John Darnielle Tells the Story Behind the Mountain Goats' Biblical New LP". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 8, 2009.
“I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.”
“Look, you couldn’t pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people’s work and who never puts themselves on the line.”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.”
“As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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