"I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people."

-- Amy Hempel

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.”
“Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Youâ€™re not necessarily supposed to believe itâ€¦Youâ€™re just supposed to believe in it.”
“Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”
“Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.”

Source : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books
“It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.”

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