"At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith. Faith is a strange and wonderful thing. You come up to a kind of wall of unknowing and instead of turning back in despair you leap over it into something else. The Church isn't why I'm a writer, but it's probably a part of it."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Ayana Mathis

#Wall Quotes #People Quotes #Despair Quotes

“As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.”
“For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.”
“Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.”
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
“In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.”
“I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.”

Source : "Kelly Rowland, The-Dream Talk Emotional 'Dirty Laundry' Single: Exclusive" by Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. May 15, 2013.
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

Source : William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.290, Vintage
“It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”

Source : "Crowds" by Gerald Stanley Lee, (Book II, Chapter V), 1913.

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