"Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?"

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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

#Sentences Quotes

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? â€” why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections â€” an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places â€” which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.”
“Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.”
“No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.”
“We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.”
“I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.”

Source : Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.
“Music is the ultimate teacher.”
“Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.”
“At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.”

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