"A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all."

-- Thomas Merton

“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”
“Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (1992). “Maybe the moon: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers
“When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.”
“I loved Superman as a kid, and to me, this was my superhero.”
“When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so.”
“My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know â€¦ I donâ€™t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my motherâ€™s alive. My motherâ€™s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, â€˜Was I in the right place?â€™ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, thereâ€™d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therfâ€”ker down!”
“Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.”
“I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.”

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