"A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as being well-suited to the way we now live, with all of these broken-up bits of time. I hope they're right, but my sense is that our fiction reading has become, if anything, more cherished as a kind of escape from fragmentation."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lorin Stein

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”
“In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.”
“When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.”
“Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”
“If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“How do we thank an angel? Somehow I donâ€™t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun”
“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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