"Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself."

-- John of Kronstadt

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“Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.”
“I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.”

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“We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.”
“Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,â€”but she always pays.”
“Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.”
“With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.”
“Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.”
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

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