"I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.”
“In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.”
“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
“Teen Moms! I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didnt watch that show Hoarders. That thing would made my skin crawl.”
“I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.”
“I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.”
“Surviving, that's my plan.”
“When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.”

Source : Source: www.goldensufi.org

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