Copans Marathon Quotes & Sayings

We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people. — Michael Port

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true
not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance. — Jayne Anne Phillips

I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts. — Alfred Schnittke

Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth being ever seen by two persons alike ... What Pierre chiefly desired was always to transmit his thought to another exactly as he conceived it himself. — Leo Tolstoy

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom - you don't have the ovaries (Monica Morrell - Last Breath) — Rachel Caine

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The purpose of journeying together in spiritual friendship and spiritual community (whether there are just two of you or whether you are in a small group) is to listen to one another's desire for God, to nurture that desire in each other and to support one another in seeking a way of life that is consistent with that desire. — Ruth Haley Barton

An image is better than one thousand words — Confucius