"And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past"

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Source : Nami Mun (2008). “Miles from Nowhere”, p.24, Penguin

Nami Mun

#Past Quotes #New Day Quotes #Stills Quotes

“I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.”
“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.167, Shambhala Publications
“People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.”
“For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.”
“I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.”
“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”

Source : "The Rumpus mini-interview project #102: Max Winter". Interview with Maria Anderson, therumpus.net. September 21, 2017.
“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

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