Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
– Aurin Squire
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- Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it’s damn good for you. – JRR Tolkien
- Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters – Sharad Vivek Sagar
- This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth
- With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence. – Susan Sontag
- Everything is ‘just a story’. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it’s just a story. What matters is making sure it’s heard. – Mira Grant
- Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long — they’ll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. – TF Hodge
- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself. – Maureen Moss
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- The Librarians control the information… They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power. – Brandon Sanderson
- The feeling of ‘turning into your dad’ is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you. – Andy Graham
- Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God’s maddening, disruptive, creativity. – M Craig Barnes
- Oh, let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations. – Charles ens
- …moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all. – Susan Squire
- Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference. – Eric Allenbaugh
- Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. – Kamand Kojouri
- Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. – Sarvesh Jain
- Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
- It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
- Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. – Daniel Prokop
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
- A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. – Neil Gaiman
- A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. – Veronica Purcell
- The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold – Dan Brown
- Write about us,- Robinson urged. -œTell our story.- And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. – James Patterson
- There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. – David Byrne
- Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal! – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time… Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places. – Tana French
- Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves. – Stacia Pelletier
- The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible. – Jorge Luis Borges
- Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. – MF Moonzajer
- Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. – MF Moonzajer
- In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Discovering an inner history requires listening -“ and often not to the first story told. – Sherry Turkle