"A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once."

-- Richard Russo

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I believe that beauty is a basic service.”
“The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work.”

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“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
“Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.”
“I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.”
“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”
“Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion,”
“The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.”

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