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Peter Turchi

"The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?"

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

Peter Turchi

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Character Quotes

“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

Source : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.
“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.”
“I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.”
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.”
“A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”
“The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.”
“We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.”

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