"Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here."

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Cinda Williams Chima

#Appreciate Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Maxine Waters is a Democrat from California in her 13th term. She is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is among the six-dozen Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Donald's Trump inauguration. She did participate in the women's march.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The delicous breath of rain was in the air.”
“There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.”

Source : Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.”
“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”
“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

Source : "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.
“The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.”
“If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.”

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