"If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Kids Quotes #Stories Quotes #Chance Quotes

“I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.”
“Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.”
“Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.”
“Things explain each other, not themselves.”

Source : George Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). “The Selected Letters of George Oppen”, p.115, Duke University Press
“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.”
“I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.”

Source : "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.
“Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.”

Source : Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.58, MIT Press

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