Mark Richard quotes
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“A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.”
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“That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.”
-- Mark RichardSource : Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.”
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“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
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“If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.”
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“I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.”
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Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.
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“My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.”
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