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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is…
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my…
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical.…
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship,…
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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