"Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener."

-- Nanci Griffith

#Song Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Half Quotes

“I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.”
“What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...”
“But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.”
“Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.”
“The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?”
“I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.”
“The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.”

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