"Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir."

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Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

Hilary Liftin

#Writing Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Way Quotes

“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
“No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”
“Weâ€™re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when youâ€™re processing with your brain, youâ€™re broadcasting fields.”
“Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.”

Source : Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books
“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”
“But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.”

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