Quotes by Silas House - Page 1

Writing is a supernatural thing.
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Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Graduation
Just Being
Libertarian
Sometimes
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Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
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Forever
Ink
Scene
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Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.
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Night
People
Sometimes
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In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.
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New York
People
Real
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Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.
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Long
Secret
Waiting
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I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.
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Running
Rain
Swimming
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Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart
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Grief
Hate
Heart
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I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.
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Hands
Silence
Tree
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I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.
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Character
Keys
Writing
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But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data—something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
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Eye
Hate
Heart
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Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.
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Country
Doe
Want
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Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.
Silas House / Writer
Cameras
Forever
Real
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