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Goodness Quotes (page 255)

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just beecause I never have any trials. (Sara Crewe, A Little Princess) Frances Hodgson Burnett
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces? a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast? could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second. J. D. Salinger
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Anthony Burgess
... maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don'twant to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones. Charles Bukowski
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born... Betty Smith
Anatole France quote: "All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards,..."
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. Anatole France
George Orwell quote: "I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist..."
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. George Orwell
Clive Barker quote: "No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering."
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. Clive Barker
O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde. John Wilson
A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead... Amy Tan
Khalil Gibran quote: "For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?"
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Khalil Gibran
Frank Zappa quote: "Music is the only religion that delivers the goods."
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. Frank Zappa
Gore Vidal quote: "Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories..."
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. Gore Vidal
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal. Richard Russo
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. Agatha Christie

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