"[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter."

-- Oliver D. Crisp

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You really think your life is going to go a certain way sometimes, and then sometimes something amazing happens just out of the sheer generosity and kindness and faith of others and I never anticipated that I would have the chance to make my dreams come true. And you guys have given me that chance. It's about faith and encouragement and I wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me the trust and the belief that you have. And I hope you trust and believe in yourselves as much as you trust and believe in me.”
“Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.”
“They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.”
“Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happened in a particular moment and meant something at that time, and we're trying to capture it to mass reproduce it for readers. So of course something is lost. And when we edit that material, we're getting even further from that aura, but toward something else that is potentially vital.”
“Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate”
“Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.”
“Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.”

Source : "Frum: Conservatives fleeced and ‘lied to by conservative entertainment complex’" by Drew Katchen, www.msnbc.com. November 09, 2012.
“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”

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