"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."

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Russell Banks

#Storytelling Quotes #Allegiance Quotes

“As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.”
“Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.”

Source : "We Speak To The British Politician Behind The Controversial 180-Character 'Twitter-Killer' Menshn" by Adam Taylor, www.businessinsider.com. July 5, 2012.
“Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.”
“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
“Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.”
“Effort plus motive equals result.”
“Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.”
“money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen”

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