"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."

-- Tobias Wolff

#Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.”
“Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.*”
“No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.”

Source : L.P. Jacks (1924). “A Living Universe”
“When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish”
“To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.”
“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.”
“When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.”
“Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.”

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