"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."

-- Anne Lamott

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.”
“The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.”
“It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.”
“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
“You can only fall in love once the next time you rise with it”
“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.”
“In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.”
“All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.”

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