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... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts -- for him traditional -- by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread and wine. I could wish that no definitions had ever been felt to be necessary; and, still more, that none had been allowed to make divisions between churches. C. S. Lewis
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. Henry David Thoreau
Alan Paton quote: "It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but..."
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton
Oscar Wilde quote: "Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: "This..."
Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: "This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. Oscar Wilde
These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave. Roberto Bolano
…The way is shut. ‘Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut. J. R. R. Tolkien
Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon. “No,” he said, putting down his fork. “It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way. “I don’t believe it.” “I saw it,” said Bunny. “It was on television.” “How did they get there? When did this happen? Donna Tartt
Day by day his sister grew. Paler with the wound. She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it. Each day with her blue Breton jacket.- from Life After Death Ted Hughes
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone. Malcolm Gladwell
Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jodi Picoult quote: "he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to..."
...he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter. Jodi Picoult
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson
Vernor Vinge quote: "Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a..."
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. Vernor Vinge
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished. John Singer Sargent
... He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: "Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE. Edith Wharton

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