"I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship"

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Source : Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

Forrest Gander

#Ambition Quotes #Worship Quotes #Lost Quotes

“'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.”

Source : Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
“I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.”
“There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.”
“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.876, Ballantine Books
“Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait." Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.”
“Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.”
“Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.”
“I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.”

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