"I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a ***** child."

-- Rachel Cusk

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.”
“The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.”
“Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect God to be the overarching influencer in our nation.”
“I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.”

Source : "Q&A: Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus F1". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. December 14, 2009.
“Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.50
“The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.”
“Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”
“Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.”

Source : "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.

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