"I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me."

-- Rob Roberge

#Writing Quotes #Mentor Quotes #Changed Quotes

“I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.”
“First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.”
“The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.”
“It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.”
“Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books
“I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.”
“The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about”
“Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.”

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