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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put..."
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. Barbara Kingsolver
Adlai E. Stevenson quote: "In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the..."
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. Adlai E. Stevenson
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. Sarah Palin
Salman Rushdie quote: "You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into..."
You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail. Salman Rushdie
Groucho Marx quote: "I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints...."
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks. Groucho Marx
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? Dan Savage
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down... Arthur Conan Doyle
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed. Umberto Eco
Michel de Montaigne quote: "I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far..."
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own. Michel de Montaigne
No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. George Washington
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is. John Piper
The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God. John Piper
Sherman Alexie quote: "And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody..."
And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. Sherman Alexie
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? Stephen King
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has... Erich Fromm

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