"Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our lives because of what we are doing right.”
“A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.”
“To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.”
“In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.”
“Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.”
“The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.”
“I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.”

Source : "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Monogamous with Zak Orth". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”

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