Morris West Quotes

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• And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other…
• In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have…
• The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some…
• If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
• None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of…
• It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the…
• I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees…
• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open…
• Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever…
• He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that…
• Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity…
• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a…
• All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
• Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his…
• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
• You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave…
• Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
• I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it.…

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