#emo

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

#keep #memory #other #our #ourselves

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ↗

— Alice Munro

#final #get #gets #i #lost

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. ↗

— Marc Newson

#emotional #familiar #feel #gives #important

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

#around #businesses #country #demonstrated #economy

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#audiences #city #earliest #earliest memories #entertain

Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising. ↗

— Jennifer Hudock

#demons #beauty

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#also #characters #emotional #give #happens