"The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky."

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Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.630, Macmillan

Flannery O'Connor

#Looks Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Garbage Quotes

“Children know perfectly well that unicorns arenâ€™t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.”
“Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.”
“We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.”
“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.”

Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press
“I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.”
“... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.”
“The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.”

Source : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
“The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.”

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