"Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground."

-- Richard Ford

#Memories Quotes #Self Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. t's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”
“I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.”
“Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.”
“Once when I was cooking I burned my arm with scalding water. I went to the Emergency Room of the Hospital. When the doctor came in he looked at me and looked at my chart, and looked at me and looked at my chart, then looked at me again and said, "I loved your show!" He told me that when he was doing his internship he would come home every night stressed out, but he would watch a late night rerun of the Andy Griffith Show and relax and fall asleep. He said, "I wouldn't be a doctor, if it wasn't for the Andy Griffith Show".”
“The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.”

Source : "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.
“You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.”

Source : Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.399, Simon and Schuster
“Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.”

Source : Laura Schlessinger (2008). “Stop Whining, Start Living”, p.14, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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