"In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others."

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Source : Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.225, Small Beer Press

Geoff Ryman

#Self Quotes #Stories Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.”

Source : Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.
“Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.”
“If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.”
“Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.”
“A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.”
“There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.”
“When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.”
“I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.”

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