"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best."

-- Jim Harrison

#Writing Quotes #Michigan Quotes #States Quotes

“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

Source : Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.95, Faber & Faber
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”
“The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.”
“There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.”
“The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.”
“If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.”

Source : 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
“Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer”
“Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.”

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