"Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter."

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Source : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

Monica Drake

#Jesus Quotes #Lambs Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I think I was six when I discovered the song "White Wedding" by Billy Idol, and that was the first time I thought I had discovered something on my own. It's the first song I remember hearing and liking without anyone telling me to like it.”
“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”
“I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.”
“blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.42, Faber & Faber
“It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.”
“The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.”
“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1951). “New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River”
“The best religion is the most tolerant.”

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