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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to…
— Steve Carell
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Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you…
— Carl Jung
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I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out,…
— Christian Wiman
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In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this…
— Jules Olitski
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you…
— Yann Martel
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A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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