"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."

-- Frederick Buechner

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“Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.”
“As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as part of the ongoing narrative is informed by it. In other words, try relocating the stories elsewhere, and what's the effect? They almost immediately cease to exist.”

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“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”
“I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.”
“Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.”
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
“The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.”

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