July 20, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Thomas Berger (1924 - ):

“Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.”

and

“If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.”

Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961):

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”

and

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

and

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”

Cormac McCarthy (1933 - ):

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

and

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”

Alistair MacLeod (1936 -2014):

“All of us are better when we're loved.”

and

“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”

Jess Walter (1965 - ):

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: 'desire, disappointment, and the sea.'

'That’s only three.'

Alvis finished his wine. 'You have to do disappointment twice.' ”

and

“Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for awhile, we're less alone.”