"Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller."

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Source : Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

Susan Fletcher

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“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.”

Source : "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.
“A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
“You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.”
“I don't have a Wikiquotes page.”
“My parents were not theatrical at all.”
“It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.”
“They [China] have indicated that theyâ€™re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.”

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