"What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative"

-- Tracy Kidder

#Creative Quotes #Territory Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“No one ever won a game by resigning.”
“They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.”
“Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.”
“The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.”
“Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.”
“Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media
“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.”
“First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.”

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