"The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces."

-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#Writing Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Favourite Quotes

“When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually itâ€™s your fixed identity thatâ€™s crumbling. And as ChÃ¶gyam Trungpa used to tell us, thatâ€™s cause for celebration.”
“The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.”
“I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.”
“I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
“I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by Barbara Hess, 2005.
“I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments”
“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”

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