
“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
Context: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
On letting his work speak regarding race and class in “James McBride Says Fiction Writing Allows Him More Freedom” https://www.npr.org/2017/10/01/554933082/james-mcbride-says-fiction-writing-allows-him-more-freedom in NPR (2017 Oct 1)
“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting”
I would have fired BP chief by now, Obama says http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37566848/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/ (June 8, 2010)
2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)
“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”