Place Matters Quotes

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Geography is everywhere

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.