"If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you werenâ€™t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?"

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Source : Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.22, Profile Books

Padgett Powell

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.”
“Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.”
“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.”
“Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.”
“Really people only like the food that their mothers make.”

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“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
“The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.”
“The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)”

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