"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."

-- Mary Augusta Ward

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“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
“When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. Â The girls would say something to you.”
“And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.”
“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.”

Source : "Chinese writer Mo Yan, known for bawdy, sprawling tales, wins Nobel literature prize". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2012.
“Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.”

Source : Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.222
“People are afraid of everything.”

Source : "Can Jean-Francois Cope save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.”
“It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.”

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