"Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Dec 04, 2011

Jayne Anne Phillips

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Practice Quotes

“My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.”

Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.104, Regnery Publishing
“America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.”
“Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.”

Source : "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.
“We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.”

Source : Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.277, Courier Corporation
“When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge
“He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.”

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