"Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the flaws in a piece of fiction are, unhappily, so often also the flaws of the writer."

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Katie Kitamura

#Writing Quotes #Scary Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.”
“There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling”
“It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.”
“I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.”
“In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.”
“Itâ€™s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”
“If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.”
“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.”

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