"I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either."

-- Aimee Friedman

#Destiny Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.”
“As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.”
“What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.”
“Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?”
“Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.”
“Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.92, Wave Books
“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.”
“In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.”

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