"Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes

“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.”

Source : William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”
“My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street.”
“I'm ashamed that we've progressed as little as we have sometimes. I think the template that every band looks at is The Beatles and how much they progressed in six or seven years. But if you're seeing it, good. Hopefully we're evolving. It's hard to tell from here.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.”
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster
“When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.”
“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.”
“I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.”

Source : Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage

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