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two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the... Madeleine L'Engle
Christopher Hitchens quote: "To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that..."
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off Christopher Hitchens
We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run. Mercedes Lackey
Ani DiFranco quote: "I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges..."
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. Ani DiFranco
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and..."
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Jodi Picoult quote: "Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain..."
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. Jodi Picoult
Janet Evanovich quote: "Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said...."
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. Janet Evanovich
John Lennon quote: "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream."
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. John Lennon
I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or shrugged off by the land, but superfluous. It is a difficult landscape to enter, and to develop a rapport with. It is not inimical or hostile, but indifferent, utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof. Barry Lopez
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to..."
He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty years from now you will be more dissappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Suzanne Collins quote: "Come to finish me off, Sweetheart?"
Come to finish me off, Sweetheart? Suzanne Collins
Bernard Malamud quote: "The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your..."
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course Bernard Malamud
Stephen King quote: "The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign. I jerk..."
The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign. I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that’s something. Stephen King
If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in human life, surely it could be discovered mysteriously latent in those lives so suddenly cut off. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Thornton Wilder

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