"We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it."

--

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.145, Knopf

Mark Strand

#Reading Quotes #Stories Quotes

“All the world loves a clown.”
“Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.”
“I'm an easy date, as someone would say!”
“Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (1962). “Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940”
“Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.”
“Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.”
“If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.”
“Better readers are better thinkers.”

You may also like: