What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About)
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The storyteller is a survivor, after all. I lived to tell the tale is not an idle saying. My mother was giving voice to the past, to those who couldn’t tell their own stories. Storytelling is a fight against forgetting, against loss and
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“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking

گروهي براي علاقمندان به داستان كوتاه اينجا گرد هم اومديم تا داستان بخونيم ، داستان بنويسيم ، با هم حرف بزنيم و حداقل چند دقيقه دلمشغولي هاي بي انتها ...more
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