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Miriam Toews Quotes

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1964

Topics

Experience Brain Story Better You

In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.

Education Feeling Moral Emotion Word

All my life, I've been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that's the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body.

John Edgar Wideman

Life Knowledge Respect Beginning See

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Time People Evil Believe Create Who

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Punk Standards Playing Many Very

One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.

Style Food Wine Restaurant Mission

It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.

Work Interesting See Vacuum Other

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Mother Wife Step Trail Social Off

I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?

Funny Chance Why Being Funny Point

Most people play games alone, against the machine. But if you're playing against a real person, it's going to be that much more fun.

Alone Fun People You Person Play

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

Me Someone Run President Hard Going

People must work in unison.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Work People Must Unison

I do believe that everything happens for a reason.

Believe Reason Everything Happens

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