"To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story."

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Source : Source: www.songfacts.com

Dan Mangan

#Self Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Who will observe the observers?”
“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.”
“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
“I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep walking, touching every faces I drop through my lens. I will show the world - those unknown stories of sufferings. If a single hand comes to give them a shade that is the real honor of my sweat”
“Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.”
“I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.”
“One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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