"But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair."

-- Patricia A. McKillip

#Nice Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.”
“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - you know, people talk about work progressions, which doesn't really make sense with pop music because there is no progression, because there is no tonic, because there is no more tonality.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”
“Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.”
“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.”
“I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.”

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