"Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Karen Walton

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”
“In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.”
“The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.”
“No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.”
“I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.”
“I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.”
“Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.37, The New Press
“America's a very traumatized society.”

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