"... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Religious Quotes #Writing Quotes #Humble Quotes

“We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.”
“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

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“I love the crazy sex and the awkward situations.”

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“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.”
“If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.”
“Told you I was going to mess up your make up," he said, a smug grin on his face.”
“No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!”

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