"I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners."

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Source : Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.”
“I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.”
“While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.”
“Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”
“May the outward and inward man be at one.”
“I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.”
“I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.”

Source : Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”
“Everyone of us wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks: "Who am I? Who am I today? Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?" Some days, the answer is 'yes' but sometimes it's not.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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