"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."

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Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jane Hamilton

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“The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.”
“Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Too much information will make your brain choke.”
“The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship with human beings, we're in danger of losing the heart of the Christian faith. Doctrines, of course, will flow from that, but when the scriptures call us to Believe, we're being called to put our trust in Someone, not just agree with a bunch of doctrine. Demons could do that. We are to commit ourselves to Christ.”
“Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.”
“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”
“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Source : "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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