"Generosity should never exceed ability."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.”
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012
“You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.”
“You have to look good.”
“NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.”
“I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
“The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.”

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