"If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?"

-- Cormac McCarthy

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.”
“Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.”
“From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.”

Source : "StrengthsFinder 2.0". Book by Tom Rath, 2007.
“I ran like a thing that runs.”
“Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”

Source : 1983 Waterland, ch.8.
“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
“Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 21, 2013

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