"We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us."

-- Ramona Koval

#Wisdom Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Suits Quotes

“Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss”
“It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.”
“I saw that evil was impotentâ€”that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-realâ€”and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.”
“May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
“Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.”
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”

Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure", www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.
“I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.”
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”

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