"How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?"

-- Bernard Malamud

#Believe Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Believe In God Quotes

“I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.”
“Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.”

Source : H. A. Rey, Margret Rey (2009). “Curious George”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.”
“The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.”

Source : Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”
“Life is mostly freehand.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.”
“Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.”
“Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.”

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