"The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness."

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“An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.”
“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.”
“Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, p.1979, Bywater Books
“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”
“Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.”
“I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.”
“Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.”
“You can't stop a reform in the middle. You do it completely and pretty fast, or you don't do it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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