"Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint."

-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Saint Quotes #Want Quotes

“It is a lie that America is racist”
“Delay is the enemy of progress.”
“As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
“Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.”
“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.
“Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.”
“When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“Donâ€™t let anyone say you canâ€™t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just donâ€™t get that.”

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