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- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people…
- It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells…
- When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will…
- Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this…
- I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
- We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see…
- I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
- ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see…
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
- 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…
- Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute…
- I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
- Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of…
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