"People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

David Pajo

#Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”
“A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.”
“What seems over your head is always under His feet.”
“Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.”
“So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.”
“Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1948). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray”, p.146, CCEL
“There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?”
“Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.”

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