"I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Chinelo Okparanta

#Sexy Quotes #Witty Quotes #Reading Quotes

“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”
“The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”
“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2012). “The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”
“You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.”
“If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.”
“Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.”
“What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.”

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