"There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep."

-- Brendan Benson

#Fall Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Pens Quotes

“Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If itâ€™s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, itâ€™s going to fail.”

Source : "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn". Interview with Sari Botton, therumpus.net. January 24, 2011.
“As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.”
“Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words”

Source : "[Cannes Interview] ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.
“American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.”
“We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.”

Source : "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.
“Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends.”

Source : "Discovery: Israel Broussard". Interview with Michael Hafford, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.
“Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership”
“What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic

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