"The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives."

-- Reynolds Price

#Sound Quotes #Stories Quotes

“In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.”
“People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.”

Source : Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”
“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.”
“Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.”
“I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential”
“Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect.”

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