"There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.”
“I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.”
“Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.”
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

Source : Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”
“The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.”
“I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But thereâ€™s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know Iâ€™m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But itâ€™s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.”
“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”

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