Labassere Quotes & Sayings

Rather it was being aware of what you were doing, where the sounds were coming from, what emotions they sprang from. And how your breath gave birth to the sounds. Much of what Peter sang that day, most people would have called noise. That didn't bother Viktor. It was the authenticity and the discovery that counted. — Alan McCluskey

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer. — David Guterson

It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease. — William H. Stewart

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler. — Louis D. Brandeis

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. — Steve Almond

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence ...
p 259 — Rachel Naomi Remen

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary. — David Sedaris

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. — J. L. B. Smith