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| 457f155 | This was what Joon thought Christianity meant! Food and medicine for the body, and stories for the heart if you begged for them. Then he came here, found a country full of people begging not to hear the stories, went to seminary, and found out why. No food. No medicine. No doing unto others. Just a bunch of men learning how to bellow the stories at others whether they wanted to hear them or not! | David James Duncan | ||
| ccdccff | Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God. | David James Duncan | ||
| 7d07a67 | It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's. | David James Duncan | ||
| d81c1a0 | choke on blood, if I speak. But then words well right up with the blood, I'm helpless to stop them: "I know you hate the mill," I tell him, and tears come the instant I speak. "I know you love baseball, and aren't doing what you want. But at least Vera fights. She says her dopey prayers no matter what!" I lean against the door, gasping for air and strength to finish. "All I want is for you to fight, Papa. To fight to stay alive inside! No m.. | David James Duncan | ||
| d2eae83 | He reminded me of a kid in my first-grade class, Mikey. Mikey used to talk about his pencil at Show'n'Tell. It was a fat green pencil with the school's name and district number stenciled on it. Every kid in the class had an identical pencil. But that didn't stop Mikey. He would hold it up for us to see, read the stenciled name and number to us, tell us it was a gift from his grandma, or his dad, or his uncle, tell us how green it was, and h.. | David James Duncan | ||
| c47c86a | Baseball -and I mean professional baseball- has got damned near every problem that churches and religion have got. | David James Duncan | ||
| 210debd | I remember my own childhood vividly . . . I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them.' Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, 27 September 1993 | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9474e67 | And he sailed off through night and day And in and out of weeks | Sendak Maurice | ||
| 7de18c2 | I remember my own childhood vividly . . . I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them." MAURICE SENDAK, IN CONVERSATION WITH ART SPIEGELMAN, THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1993" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c933a49 | If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. | Answer | ||
| 4ce6169 | Cognition is autonomous; it refuses to have any answers foisted on it from the outside. | Answer | ||
| 37bfed4 | The question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow? | Answer | ||
| 9803ed5 | All for God, all in Him, all with Him! | Ante Antić | ||
| 5fe07f7 | Everything that is not eternity is nothing. | Ante Antić | ||
| a860cb3 | Leave everything, both people and yourself, then go to God. | Ante Antić | ||
| 2ac273d | What you can't accomplish by work supplement with holy prayer. | Ante Antić | ||
| 85c309b | 'Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner. | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury | ||
| fb1a375 | Notice that the GOP program--articulated by Douglass and affirmed by black leaders--is none other than the color-blind ideal outlined in Martin Luther King's famous "dream." King envisioned a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. This is substantially what Douglass and other black Republicans called for, more than a century earlier." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b3cc8b1 | The rum and Coke tastes just awful. He wishes he had Susan's plain Coke. | Ann Beattie | ||
| 299b8bb | I guess that I have been thinking about how graceful you were, and although it is none of my business, I wondered whether you might not be paying a price for being that way. . . . People want to have an easy fix on other people, and since you are Cindi Coeur, it's easy to assume that someone who satirizes our shortcomings has set herself above us. | Ann Beattie | ||
| ea1f095 | Then the auctioneer introduced himself [,,,,]. He started to speak into the microphone, a maddening, jammed-up sequence of words that crashed like bumper cars, after which everything sorted itself into some kind of sense again, and after the fact you could understand most of what he'd said. | Ann Beattie | ||
| ab1e5b6 | The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| d18d200 | If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle. | B. Traven | ||
| 409f215 | The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. | BASIC | ||
| 520c3cd | When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| a950a1c | To the right, the clouds have more shape and against the blue look like the figures of a Wedgwood dish. What a fine fucking bowl beneath which they have all been caught and asked to swim out their days! Look at it this way," people used to say to Mack. "Things could be worse"--a bumper sticker for a goldfish or a bug. And it wasn't wrong -- it just wasn't the point." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b0bda70 | At all the funerals for love, love had its neat trick of making you mourn it so much, it reappeared. Popped right up from the casket. Or, if it didn't reappear itself, it sent a relative of startling resemblance, a thin and charming twin, which you took home with you to fatten and cradle, nuzzle and scold. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| acc5c4b | Good God," cries the Mother. Everything inside her suddenly begins to cower and shrink, a thinning of bones. Perhaps this is a soldier's readiness, but it has the whiff of death and defeat. It feels like a heart attack, a failure of will and courage, a power failure: a failure of everything. Her face, when she glimpses it in a mirror, is cold and bloated with shock, her eyes scarlet and shrunk. She has already started to wear sunglasses ind.. | parenthood | Lorrie Moore | |
| 60bf39f | It's a fast but wimpy tumor," he explains. "It typically metastasizes to the lung." He rattles off some numbers, time frames, risk statistics. Fast but wimpy: the Mother tries to imagine this combination of traits, tries to think and think, and can only come up with Claudia Osk from the fourth grade, who blushed and almost wept when called on in class, but in gym could outrun everyone in the quarter-mile fire-door-to-fence dash. The Mother .. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6929815 | It's bad enough when they refer to medical science as 'an inexact science,' " says the Mother. "But when they start referring to it as 'an art,' I get extremely nervous." | medicine | Lorrie Moore | |
| 9704625 | Even his I love you's," she said, "were like tiny daggers, like little needles or safety pins. Beware of a man who says he loves you but is incapable of a passionate confession; of melting into a sob." | love | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1f6fa48 | This is a political New Year's Eve," says Albert. "We're here to protest the new year, protest the old; generally get a petition going to Father Time." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0993559 | Ever since Albert was denied promotion to full-professor rank, his articles on Flannery O'Connor ("A Good Man Really Is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Indeed Converge," and "The Totemic South: The Violent Actually Do Bear It Away!") failing to meet with collegial acclaim, he has become determined to serve others, passing out the notices and memoranda, arranging the punch and cookies at various receptions." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 4f78d1b | Blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 7d3beb1 | Before he wrote about them," said Quilty, pretending to read the guidebook out loud, "Hemingway shot his characters. It was considered an unusual but not unheard-of creative method. Still, even within literary circles, it is not that widely discussed." | writing | Lorrie Moore | |
| 69b756a | The prospect of a war has seized his brain. It engages some old, ongoing terror in him. As a former soldier, he still believes in armies. But he believes in armies at rest, armies relaxing, armies shopping at the PX, armies eating supper in the mess hall. | war | Lorrie Moore | |
| b777060 | She gazed over at her mother and took a deep breath. Perhaps her mother had never shown Abby affection, not really, but she had given her a knack for solitude, with its terrible lurches outward, and its smooth glide back to peace. Abby would toast her for that. It was really the world that was one's brutal mother, the one that nursed and neglected you, and your own mother was only your sibling in that world. Abby lifted her glass. "May the .. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 307674a | You live if you dance to the voice that ails you. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0eaa61b | The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 5450e37 | She had bought several plain pine chests to use as love seats or boot boxes, but they came to look to her more and more like children's coffins, so she returned them. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0674d77 | Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0b2eddf | He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0b9dbd8 | How can it be described? How can any of it be described? The trip and the story of the trip are always two different things. The narrator is the one who has stayed home, but then, afterward, presses her mouth upon the traveler's mouth, in order to make the mouth work, to make the mouth say, say, say. One cannot go to a place and speak of it; one cannot both see and say, not really. One can go, and upon returning make a lot of hand motions a.. | story | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1156f9e | She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush. Still," | Lorrie Moore |