"But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own."

-- Salvador Plascencia

#Would Be Quotes #Stories Quotes #Force Quotes

“Losing is not in my vocabulary.”
“Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.”
“It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House
“The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.”
“The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.”
“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

Source : "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.
“It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.”
“Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.”

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