"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."

-- Alice Munro

#Stories Quotes #Way Quotes

“Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr
“I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.”
“I gained another friend.”
“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”
“Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.”
“Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I'm overheating.”

Source : Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.15, Penguin UK
“The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians...”

Source : "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.
“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460

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