"I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think I can gain comfort with by practice. It was a real struggle for me while writing memoir to get past three pages or so. In poems, I can write long poems. But length in prose: no."

-- Shane McCrae

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“People are afraid to merge.”
“Begin doing what you want to do now.”
“The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.”
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”
“I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.”
“While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.”
“It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied.”
“I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.”

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