"I remember one of my writer friends asking me, "Jonestown? Everyone knows the ending. What's new or surprising that you can say about it?" I told him that although people may know that almost one thousand people died in the massacre, they don't know what happens to my five people. Some escaped, some did not."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Julia Scheeres

#People Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”
“I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.”

Source : "Mike Oldfield Interview for the Re-release of Tubular Bells". Interview with David Cheal, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2009.
“I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.”

Source : Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.186, Penguin
“Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.”

Source : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of OrlÃ©ans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of OrlÃ©ans.”
“I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.”

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