"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."

-- Ellen Glasgow

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“Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.”
“I've always wanted to marry Elton John.”
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
“Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.”
“John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.”

Source : "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.
“Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.”
“When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.”
“If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God.”

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