"When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending."

-- BrenÃ© Brown

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Deny Quotes

“When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.”
“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names â€¦Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

Source : "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
“All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.”
“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
“Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.”
“The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)”
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”
“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?”

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