"A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough."

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Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

Joy Williams

#Thinking Quotes #Agents Quotes #Enough Quotes

“My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.”

Source : The Washington Post Translated Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.
“Was it for this the clay grew tall?”
“I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.”

Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.34, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.”
“I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.”
“I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan,”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
“Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.”

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