"Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.”
“If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.”
“For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.”
“Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?”
“I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.”

Source : Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.
“Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.”
“Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”
“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.”

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