"There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy."

-- Jim Butcher

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“If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.”
“A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.”

Source : Francis Thompson (1913*). “Prose [works].”
“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
“Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.”
“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.”

Source : "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
“Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.”
“I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!”

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