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Goodness Quotes (page 399)

Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works. Eric Bentley
Joseph Heller quote: "Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family. Joseph Heller
But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction. John Fowles
Kate Chopin quote: "She was just having a good cry all to herself. The"
She was just having a good cry all to herself. The Kate Chopin
Ray Bradbury quote: "You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality,..."
You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. Ray Bradbury
Arthur Golden quote: "I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that..."
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Arthur Golden
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) John Irving
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists. Arundhati Roy
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. Peter Benchley
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. James Beard
And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it. Paulo Coelho
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am? my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. John Coltrane
Even when I'm alone I have real good company? dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships? and nice, jolly little times with people. L. M. Montgomery
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Fulton J. Sheen
I am sorry for him; I couldn't beangry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always. Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dinewith us. What's the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner."Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge'sniece. Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to havebeen competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with thedessert upon the table, were clustered round the... Charles Dickens

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