"I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it."

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Source : Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin

Craig Johnson

#Poetry Quotes #Littles Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.”
“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.”
“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.”
“Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.”
“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”
“Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.”

Source : Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin
“National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.”
“Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.”

Source : Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.80, New York Review of Books

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