"People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

John Darnielle

#Nursing Quotes #Expression Quotes #People Quotes

“Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.”
“I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.”
“All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.”
“I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness personally - my mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me. And that's something I want to post on every mirror in my house: This is not about you!”
“Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.”
“What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.”
“Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

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