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Joe Meno

"The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more."

-- Joe Meno

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“I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.”
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
“It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.”
“Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.”
“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press
“I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.”
“A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.”
“I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.”

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