"People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense."

-- Tracy Kidder

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.”
“You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.”
“A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.”
“The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.”
“I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.”
“We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.”
“I tend to stay away from the comics.”
“I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.”

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