We carry our childhood with us.
Gary D. Schmidtmore to be a human being with
Gary D. SchmidtTag: art books humanity artists
There are times when she makes me feel as stupid as asphalt.
Gary D. SchmidtYou know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.
Gary D. SchmidtTag: art
Creativty is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
Gary D. SchmidtAnd I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.
Gary D. SchmidtYou know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.
Gary D. SchmidtI never knew a building could hold so much inside.
. . . I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day, and you walk by them on your way to something else, and you hardly see. You hardly notice they're even there, mostly because there's something else going on right in front of your face. But when the town itself becomes the thing that is going on right in front of your face, it all changes, and you're not just looking at a house but at what's happened in that house before you were born.
No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.
Gary D. SchmidtLizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
Tag: world inspirational-attitude
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