"I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent itâ€™s the fiction writerâ€™s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in."

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Source : "Wells Tower, Fiction Writer, Is Looking for Joy". Interview with Leon Neyfakh, observer.com. March 23, 2009.

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#Meaningful Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Believe Quotes

“To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.”
“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the ***** thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.”
“I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff, Phyllis Howard Kernberger, Katherine Kernberger (1997). “I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, Chronicle Books Llc
“Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.”

Source : "Donald Trump Picks A Republican Activist As Education Secretary". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.
“What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.”
“Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.”

Source : Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow
“I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.”

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