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- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
- Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.…
- Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see…
- It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned…
- The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.…
- People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
- When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it;…
- She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth…
- [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.…
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at…
- She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
- Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle