"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."

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Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.194, Hawthorne Books

Lidia Yuknavitch

#Stories Quotes

“Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.”
“I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.”
“The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press
“The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.”
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
“Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.”
“If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?”
“And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”

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