Jerry Pinto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.
-- Jerry Pinto

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You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If youâ€™re walking fast, if the sunâ€™s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into peopleâ€™s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.
-- Jerry Pinto

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Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.
-- Jerry Pinto

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A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?
-- Jerry Pinto

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I am no I. I am now part of a we.
-- Jerry Pinto

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Jerry Pinto famous quotes

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