"God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image."

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Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

Irving Layton

#Self Quotes #Saws Quotes #Horror Quotes

“Invest your life in what you love.”
“I was born in revolution.”
“I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.”

Source : "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 3, 2000.
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.”
“Never give up. Look forward to the future, and donâ€™t give a damn about haters”
“Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.”

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