"I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns"

-- Anne Tyler

#Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.”
“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.”
“My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.”
“Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”

Source : "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.
“I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.”
“Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.”
“I only finished first grade.”
“Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.”

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