"I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Allegra Goodman

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.”
“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”
“Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.”

Source : Insider Video: Episode 2, November 13, 2006.
“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that”
“I'm drowning my brother drowning.”
“I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.”

Source : "‘Will & Grace’ Stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing Reunite To Support The Trevor Project". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.
“Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

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