"The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance."

-- Richard Price

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“Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.”
“Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.”
“The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage
“Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.”
“Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.”
“History is no more than memories refreshed.”
“To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.”
“Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.”

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