"The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision."

-- Louise Bogan

#Hair Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.”
“Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.22, Macmillan
“After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.”
“I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.”

Source : Interview with Neil Ashton, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 16, 2013.
“In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.”
“We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.”
“Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.”

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