"He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else."

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Source : William Cooke, Samuel Foote (1806). “Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c., Mostly Original, and Three of His Dramatic Pieces Not Published in His Works : in Two Volumes”, p.179

Samuel Foote

“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.”
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.”
“The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.”

Source : "Calling & Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life". Book by William H. Willimon, September 1, 2010.
“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.”
“I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.”
“We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.”
“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2014). “Moon Over Minneapolis”, p.5, Head of Zeus

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