2021Q

I’ve decided to not repost quotes starting December 1, 2021. You will still find new quotes in my blog.

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“Understanding our limitations is important. Once you accept those, you’ve got a simple choice to make…despair or hope. Give up or stand up.”

-Ms. Marvel-

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad. I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

-Stephen Chbosky-

“The place where you feel that you stick out the most is the place where you should stick out and stay. That’s where you can contribute something new and something fresh.”

-Riz Ahmed-

“One thing I won’t do is compromise. I will never do something based on what everybody is telling me to do.”

-Missy Elliott-

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”

-Garrison Keillor-

June 17, 2021

Then, there’s the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. ‘It isn’t hot, brother,’ comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, ‘until the chair gets up when you do!’

WALTER WINCHELL

You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND

More murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. Over one hundred — it’s too hot to move. Under ninety, cool enough to survive. But right at ninety-two degrees lies the apex of irritability, everything is itches and hair and sweat and cooked pork. The brain becomes a rat rushing around a red-hot maze. The least thing — a word, a look, a sound, the drop of a hair and — irritable murder. Irritable murder, there’s a pretty and terrifying phrase for you.

RAY BRADBURY

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

TOM WAITS

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed, and pulsing.

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February 21, 2021

“I now know and trust completely that writing happens long before I ever type a word; that my best thinking and writing will happen before and after the first draft but not necessarily during it.”

-Alex Johnson-

“A true work of fiction…strikes us, in the end, not simply as a thing done but as a shining performance.”

-Johns Gardner-

“The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live as steadfastly as if he, too, like a character in a play, were immured against the corrupting rush of time.”

-Tennessee Williams-

“The poet’s mission on earth is to inspire and to illuminate; and to leave behind our glorious descendants an intricate and varied map of humanity.”

-Marilyn Chin-

“The sonnet defends itself against the vicissitudes of fortune by its charmed structure, its beautiful bubble. All the while, though, chaos is lurking outside the gate.”

-Rita Dove-

“I think a little menace is fine to have in a story… There has to be tension, a sense that something is imminent, that certain things are in relentless motion, or else, most often, there simply won’t be a story.”

-Raymond Carver-

“What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set most high.”

-Eudora Welty-

“…the lasting appeal of tragedy is due to our need to face the fact of death in order to strengthen ourselves for life.”

-Arthur Miller-

“To plot is to move form asking the question and then what happened? to the question why did it happen?

-James Hillman-

February 16, 2021