"All of us are better when we're loved."

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Source : Alistair MacLeod (2012). “To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story”, p.48, McClelland & Stewart

Alistair MacLeod

“The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.”
“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”
“Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.”
“Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.”
“If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.”
“I have never willingly chased a ball.”
“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.”

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