"I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods."

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Source : "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

Michael Koryta

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?”
“Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet”
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
“It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.”
“In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.”
“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.”
“Abortion is either OK or it's not.”
“By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.”

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