"There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time."

-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Understanding Quotes #Stories Quotes #Way Quotes

“Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Truly living required risk.”
“THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.”
“We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.”
“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
“With that, he looked over his shoulder. Blay's breath shot out of his lungs. "Oh... my God," he whispered.”
“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”
“The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.”

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