"I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. Itâ€™s dealing with the material Iâ€™m inundated with that poses the problem."

-- Alice Munro

#Waiting Quotes #Problem Quotes #Turns Quotes

“The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.”
“This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.”
“Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country's economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush's.”

Source : "Time to Trade Up" by Ted Rall, rall.com. July 5, 2004.
“Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.”
“I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.”
“If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?”
“imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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