Ray Oldenburg Third Place Quotes

#1. Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

Claes Oldenburg

#2. Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Claes Oldenburg

#3. There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

Nick Flynn

#4. It was time to be strong,
take a chance ... after all,
Forever was such a long time
to feel small.

Rachel Bright

#5. A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Frederick Buechner

#6. If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

Claes Oldenburg

#7. If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Rick Atkinson

#8. Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Sophie Swetchine