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Quote for Today: Alice Munro
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June 24, 2018 by katmcdaniel

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? He …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Alice Munro, By the Light of My Father's Smile, elastic, flexibility, ideas, imagination, interpretation, mythology, obscured, space, spirit, stories, stretching, tantalizing
Quote for Today: Arundhati Roy
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April 12, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: art, Arundhati Roy, change, confrontation, corporate, empire, hope, many, materialism, new, siege, stories, voice, War Talk
Quote for Today: Crystal Woods
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July 17, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we’re forced to become acquainted with …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Crystal Woods, death, deficiencies, dreams, existence, eyes, humanity, hurt, life, pain, sadness, scars, stories, Write like no one is reading
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
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June 15, 2017 by katmcdaniel

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Diane Setterfield, environment, expression, haunting, humanity, loss, natural, necessary, silence, stories, The Thirteenth Tale, words
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
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February 25, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: digging, Eudora Welty, exhaustion, flowers, garden, gardening, grief, ground, limitation, planting, resilience, stories, survival, writing
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
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December 11, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: childhood, empathy, Eudora Welty, expectation, hope, humanity, listening, One Writer's Beginnings, participation, perception, stories, understanding, wonder, writing
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
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October 13, 2015 by katmcdaniel

He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: belief, caves, culture, darkness, fear, monsters, myth, mythical, reality, stories, tales, Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People, Underlay

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