"Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for awhile, we're less alone."

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Source : "Beautiful Ruins: A Novel". Book by Jess Walter, 2012.

Jess Walter

#Father Quotes #People Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.”

Source : Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”
“The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.”

Source : Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market
“I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.”
“I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.”

Source : "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire.com Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.
“For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.”
“I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.”

Source : Details Magazine Interview, www.mickfleetwoodofficial.com. August 21, 2014.
“How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.”
“I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.”

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