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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration…
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He…
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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
— Phyllis McGinley
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I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from…
— Roland Barthes
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We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than…
— Julian Barnes
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The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a…
— Thomas Mann
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In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,…
— C.S. Lewis
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When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a…
— Tom Noonan
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One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
— Robert Gottlieb
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