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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate. Oscar Wilde
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper. Anne Frank
Michael Chabon quote: "As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas..."
As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective. Michael Chabon
John Fowles quote: "You put up with your voice and speak with it because you..."
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. John Fowles
Stanley Kunitz quote: "The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and..."
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers. Stanley Kunitz
For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material. Michael Chabon
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. Jack Kerouac
It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the claims of society, the worth of the individual soul. It provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion, a secret place of meditation where a man can come alone into the presence of God. It does give a man courage to stand, if need be, against the world; it resolutely refuses to make of the individual a mere means... John Gresham Machen
The reality distortion field was a confounding mlange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand, Walter Isaacson
When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it,... Lewis Carroll
Flannery O'Connor had a certain genius. I don't think John Updike has, or Norman Mailer or William Styron, all of whom are talented, but they don't exceed themselves in any way. Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. Truman Capote
He doesn't have so much learning...or any special education either; he's silent, and he grins at you silently--that's how he gets by. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away. J. R. R. Tolkien
As a witness of the Savior, I exhort you to forgive any you feel may have offended you. If there is transgression, repent of it, that the Master may heal you. Richard G. Scott
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Charles Dickens

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