"Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine."

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Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

Mary Doria Russell

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“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.”
“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”
“I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.”
“I'm very visionary, very big picture.”

Source : "A Fashionable Life: Max & Lubov Azria" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 12, 2009.
“Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”
“I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.”
“It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.”
“What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?”

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