"The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime."

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Gregory Maguire

#Doe Quotes #Wickedness Quotes #Breakfast Quotes

“There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.”
“What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
“I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.”
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.”
“We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay the price. And that I have to say doesn't happen very often, particularly in a very complex economy. We're in a time of panic where people have lost trust in what the banks are doing, what the investment firms are doing - lost trust beyond a level of reasonableness, to be honest. And, it's got to be stopped.”

Source : "Religion&Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
“Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.”
“I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “Dancing Bear”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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