"It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things."

-- Betty Smith

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“Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.”
“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
“The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.4, BoD – Books on Demand
“It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.”
“The world changed on September 11, 2001.”
“Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.”

Source : "The Progress of a Biographer". Book by Hugh Kingsmill. Chapter "Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154, 1949.
“I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.”
“Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.”

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