"To create anything â€” whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom â€” is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic â€” which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see."

-- Tom Bissell

#Believe Quotes #Magic Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Pele should go back to the museum.”
“Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”
“People believe what they see.”
“Youâ€™re the reason I breathe”
“Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you.”
“Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, â€œI still dream about you.â€ â€œI have nightmares about you.â€ I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.”
“This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.”
“In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.”

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