"There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy."

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Mavis Staples

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Intimacy Quotes

“I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.”
“If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.”
“The needs of the body are the needs of the divine spirit which lives through the body.”
“Beauty always takes place in the particular.”
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
“Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.”
“I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants.”
“Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?”

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