Brian Morton Quotes

• What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.

  Brian Morton

  Girl, Book, Simple

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• You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

  Brian Morton

  Suits Of Armor, Years, Joy

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

  Brian Morton

  Writing, Different, Pieces

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• El mundo, el mundo humano, no está unido por protones y electrones, sino por historias. Nada tiene sentido en sí mismo: todos los objetos del mundo serían fragmentos de muda blancura, girando salvajemente fuera de órbita, si no los uniéramos con historias.

  Brian Morton

  Together, Orbit, Would Be

  Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

  Brian Morton

  Art, Brain, Viruses

  Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

  Brian Morton

  Opciones

  "Breakable You".

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• The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

  Brian Morton

  Memories, Blessed, Imagination

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

  Brian Morton

  Shapes, Want, Fabulous

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• Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

  Brian Morton

  Honor, Gestures, Smallest

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

  Brian Morton

  Blue, Breathing, Rivers

  Brian Morton (2007). “Breakable You”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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