"My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too."

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Marian Keyes

#Mother Quotes #Storyteller Quotes

“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...”

Source : Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.71, Counterpoint Press
“The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.”
“My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.”
“Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.”

Source : Creative Camera, №№ 163 - 174, 1978.
“Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do”
“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.”
“I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.”
“Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.408, Oxford University Press

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