"Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth."

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.14, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
“It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.”
“At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.”
“You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.”
“Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.”

Source : Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press
“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
“We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.”
“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

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