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When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all. Nick Hornby
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven..."
The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average. P. J. O'Rourke
You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age. Mark Helprin
The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop... Fulton J. Sheen
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Thomas Jefferson
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one. Black Elk
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. C. S. Lewis
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. J. R. R. Tolkien
I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. Joan Didion
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected... Joyce Carol Oates
Philip Sidney quote: "Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said..."
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. Philip Sidney
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. Nikki Giovanni
Neil Gaiman quote: "Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's..."
Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough. Neil Gaiman
Nicole Polizzi quote: "so this crow comes and it starts quacking at us."
so this crow comes and it starts quacking at us. Nicole Polizzi

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