"There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles"

-- Steven Hall

#Clever Quotes #Writing Quotes #Together Quotes

“People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”
“It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.”
“Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'”
“There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.”
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
“I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didnt tell him that when we worked together on Another Me.”
“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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