"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,”
“But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.”
“I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.”
“[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.”
“I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.”

Source : Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”
“Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.”
“The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.”

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