"This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge."

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Joan Silber

#Play Quotes #Events Quotes #Exhausted Quotes

“A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.”
“Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.”
“There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.”
“Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.”
“Weâ€™re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and theyâ€™re not the folks below. Donâ€™t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.”
“Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.”
“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”
“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”

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