"Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Single Life Quotes #Way Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.219, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.”
“Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.”

Source : Catherine de Hueck Doherty (2009). “Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Essential Writings”
“I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.”
“U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.”
“George Bowering doesnâ€™t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.”
“When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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