"Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from May 16, 2012

Kent Haruf

#Honey Quotes #Maggie Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.”
“You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.”
“does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?”
“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
“Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.”
“There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.”
“I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.”
“If you are a Steve Earle and you're up on a platform and there are people out there listening to you, say something to them. Tell them something valuable. Tell them something they need to know. It doesn't have to be dictatorial, it just has to be informative.”

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