"We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures."

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Terry Tempest Williams

#Trying Quotes #Legs Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose itâ€™s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.”

Source : Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.60, Head of Zeus
“The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.”
“Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry”
“It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.”
“Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.”
“Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.”
“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.157, Random House
“And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.”

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