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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you…
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
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Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a…
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis;…
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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to…
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Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is…
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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first…
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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.…
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into…
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,…
— John Calvin
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O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who…
— Brigit of Kildare
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
— Thomas Adams
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Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are…
— Winston Churchill
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,…
— William Temple
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
— Shelley Long
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
— Bela Lugosi
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Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to…
— Jacques Ellul
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For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to…
— John Calvin
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