"Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Children Quotes #Missing Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.”
“Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.”
“Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.”
“New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.”
“My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.”

Source : Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.
“Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.”
“For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.”
“[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.”

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