"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."

-- Howard Nemerov

#Stories Quotes #Literature Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”
“He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.”
“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”
“The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.”
“Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.”
“Youâ€™ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.”

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