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Josh Ritter Quotes

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

Josh Ritter
Real, Filing Cabinet, Space

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Josh Ritter
Space, Giving

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

Josh Ritter
Heart, Tangled, Knots
Song: Kathleen, Album: Hello Starling

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Josh Ritter
Men, Singing, Mercy
"The overlooked CDs from 2003", www.today.com. January 6, 2004.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Josh Ritter
Art, Writing, Thinking

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Josh Ritter
Long, Snow, Gone
Song: Snow Is Gone

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

Josh Ritter
Looks, Rooftops

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Josh Ritter
Water, Tree, Body
Josh Ritter (2011). “Bright's Passage: A Novel”, p.13, Dial Press

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

Josh Ritter
Kissing, Feelings, Marathon

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