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Brian Morton Biography

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Brian Morton is an American author born on July 8, 1955. His works are known for their profound character development and unique narrative style.

Feminism Oberlin

Author:Brian Morton

“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Art Done Brain Cease Torture Viruses Parasites

Book:A Window Across the River

Source: A Window Across the River

“The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.”

Feels Moments Together Imagination Memories Blessed Remains Strings Passing Away

Book:Starting Out in the Evening

Source: Starting Out in the Evening

“So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.”

Knows Want Shapes Illusion Thinker Fabulous Gorgeous Want U Great Thinkers Makeovers

Author:Brian Morton

“A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.”

Ifs Writing Persons Different Ends Process Pieces

Author:Brian Morton

“Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.”

Choices

Author:Brian Morton

“Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.”

Ifs Honor Gestures Smallest

Book:Starting Out in the Evening

Source: Starting Out in the Evening

“You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.”

World Years Different Hard Joy Spirit Turns Choices Quality Week Months Suits Armor Your Freedom Exuberance Suits Of Armor

Book:Starting Out in the Evening

Source: Starting Out in the Evening

“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.”

Ifs Needs Book Care Girl Simple Complicated Take Care Need You Alright Care For You Few Friends

Author:Brian Morton

“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.”

Ifs World Humans Stories Would Be Together Objects Bounds Spinning Mute Orbit Electrons Proton Blankness

Book:Starting Out in the Evening

Source: Starting Out in the Evening

“The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.”

Rivers Blue Breathing

Book:Breakable You

Source: Breakable You

About the Author

Born: July 8, 1955
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

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