"I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event."

-- Harold Brodkey

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“There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.”
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
“With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.37, Atlantic Monthly Press
“If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.”
“Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.”
“Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.”
“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

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