"Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there."

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Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

Dennis Covington

#Suicide Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Where You Come Quotes

“Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”
“David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.”
“If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.”
“Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.”
“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin
“Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water”
“We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]”

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