"Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader."

-- Ron Rash

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“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Preface (20 May 1926), p. vii, 1926.
“I have to eat in a way that's good for me.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pearl Jam Guitarist Mike McCready". Interview with Rick Turner, www.everydayhealth.com. June 25, 2004.
“Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.”
“In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the world, complicit with the writer. It's the best sort of bond with audience that a writer can hope for, but it demands a great deal of trust on both sides.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.”
“A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.”
“Every day is the beginning of your career.”

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