"The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them."

-- Roy Kesey

#Long Quotes #Pet Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Well," Claire said, "at least we have tacos. Everything goes better with tacos.”
“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.”
“The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.”
“Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.”
“The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people.”
“There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.”
“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”
“Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.”

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