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> [But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/but-that-is-the-way-of-the-place-down-our-many-twisting-corridors-one/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

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## More by Stephen L. Carter

> [Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/teasing-out-the-way-the-world-might-look-through-another-s-eyes-is/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/in-contemporary-american-culture-the-religions-are-more-and-more/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/lots-of-white-people-think-black-people-are-stupid-they-are-stupid/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/every-conflict-plagues-the-peace-that-follows-it/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/one-sees-a-trend-in-our-political-and-legal-cultures-toward-treating/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/you-should-never-fall-in-love-with-your-own-press-clippings-because/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/we-often-ask-our-citizens-to-split-their-public-and-private-selves/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/we-do-not-credit-to-the-ideal-of-religious-freedom-when-we-talk-as/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/nastiness-devalues-the-speaker-as-well-because-the-unwillingness-to/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/there-is-much-depressing-evidence-that-the-religious-voice-is/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/love-is-an-activity-not-a-feeling-true-love-is-not-the-helpless/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/but-that-is-the-way-of-the-place-down-our-many-twisting-corridors-one/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/in-our-sensible-zeal-to-keep-religion-from-dominating-our-politics-we/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/richard-john-neuhaus-in-his-well-known-book-the-naked-public-square/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

> [Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/love-is-a-gift-we-deliver-when-we-would-rather-not/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

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