"By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions."

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Adam Ross

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes #Way Quotes

“I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.”

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“Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.”

Source : Charles Buck (1808). “Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations”, p.66
“Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.”
“Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.”

Source : Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20
“Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.”

Source : "Q&A: Barbara Broccoli and Hilary Saltzman on Growing Up 'Bond'". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. October 5, 2012.
“We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.”
“I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.”

Source : "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.
“Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom”

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