"Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies."

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Source : Dorothy Gilman (2000). “Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled”, p.60, Ballantine Books

Dorothy Gilman

#Boredom Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.”
“The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.”
“We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.”

Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
“It doesn't matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job - a J-O-B. It really matters to people that they have an opportunity to contribute to their economy in a very meaningful way, and this is outside party lines. So we believe that these are the solutions that America is craving.”
“Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.”
“Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]”
“Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.”

Source : "Disciplines of the Spirit". Book by Howard Thurman, 1977.
“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.”

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