"That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins."

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Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.154, Hachette UK

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Past Quotes #Sin Quotes #Fats Quotes

“I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.”

Source : "Alexei Sayle's Granada". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 11, 2010.
“My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.”
“Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.”

Source : "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.
“When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.”
“The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ in the Father through the Holy Spirit, identified but not accommodated to the world Christ seeks to save.”
“You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.”

Source : "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
“Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!”
“I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.”

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