"My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

Charles R. Morris

#Writing Quotes #Perspective Quotes #West Quotes

“I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.”
“I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.”
“When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.”
“There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.”
“I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.”
“Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.”
“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company
“When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?”

Source : Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.210, Macmillan

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