Best Quotes (page 89)
![J. K. Rowling quote: "--yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often...."](/pic/340681/600x316/quotation-j-k-rowling-yet-sadly-accidental-rudeness-occurs-alarmingly.jpg)
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.
Christopher Hitchens
...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such abominable results. They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Kurt Vonnegut
The desert landscape is always at its best in the half-light of dawn or dusk. The sense of distance lacks: a ridge nearby can be a far-off mountain range, each small detail can take on the importance of a major variant on the countryside's repetitious theme. The coming of day promises a change; it is only when the day had fully arrived that the watcher suspects it is the same day returned once again--the same day he has been living for a long time, over and over, still blindingly bright and...
Paul Bowles
![Paulo Coelho quote: "Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and..."](/pic/339912/600x316/quotation-paulo-coelho-things-do-not-always-happen-the-way-i-would-have.jpg)