"I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jon Lee Anderson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.”
“The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.”
“I want to win. That's the most important thing.”
“You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.”
“Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.”
“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...”
“Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.”
“Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.”

Source : David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.229, Vintage

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