"The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep."

-- William Stafford

#Giving Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Signals Quotes

“A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.”
“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us mostâ€”suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or anotherâ€”are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.”
“We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...”
“No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.”
“A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.”
“Life is measured in achievement not in years alone”
“A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.”

Source : "All or Nothing" by Emma Brockes, www.newyorker.com. November 10, 2014.

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