Disappearance Quotes - Page 6

• I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

  Lorin Stein

  Regret, Writing, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

  Viola Davis

  Carácter, Yo, Actuación

  Fuente: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Two, Space, Three

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

  David Whyte

  Loss, Thinking, Might

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

  Junio Jordan

  Suicide, America, Black

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

  Linn Ullmann

  Song, Father, Writing

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• There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

  Glen David Gold

  Saws, Transformation, Moments

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• Gifford Pinchot señala que en la época colonial y pionera el bosque era un enemigo y un obstáculo para el colono. Había que talarlo... Pero [ahora] como nación aún no hemos llegado a tener el debido respeto por el bosque y a considerarlo como una parte indispensable de nuestros recursos, uno que se destruye fácilmente pero que es difícil de reemplazar; uno que confiere grandes beneficios mientras perdura, pero cuya desaparición va acompañada de una serie de malas consecuencias que no se pueden prever fácilmente y que son irreparables.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Evil, Forests, Pioneers

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• The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Epic, Black, Heirs

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