"Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest."

-- Bret Lott

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“Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1930). “In defence of sensuality”
“The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late”
“Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.”
“Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.”
“The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.”
“We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.”

Source : "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report", Volume 25, Part 3, p. 2388, 1967.
“Woman is also the element of conflict.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.”

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