"Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way."

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Source : Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Roger Angell

#Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”
“We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56
“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”
“I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.”
“This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.”
“The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.”
“Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.”

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