“To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.” BelieveWellsSoundFitTruth IsExpectationsDeterminedFamiliarEncountersConsistentlyContests Author:Sheri S. Tepper
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” KnowsFeelsWritingWellsChildrenLongCountryStoriesUseHandsSeemsAbleMovingValuesKnownTreeStreetsWallFitWalkingElementsLong TimeToolsFamiliarEaseVocationMisunderstood Author:Natalia Ginzburg
“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.” MeanDoeStatesRealityAmericaFitEuropeJewIsraelRussiaFamiliarPhrasesEtcStereotypeDiasporaHomegrown Author:Steven Pressfield
“For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .” BookDreamReadingStrangeFitFindingsEndureFamiliarShakingCommonplaceFeverMalariaRecurrenceStrange Dreams Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.” PeopleIfsHas BeensFitElectionDisappointmentBackgroundsFamiliarGood People Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.” PeopleTryingKindImportantMovingBlackFocusFitPrejudiceGratefulSeparationFamiliarAll KindsGood TimesSocial IssuesLearBlack Family Author:Solly Granatstein