"On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people."

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Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.137, Broadway Books

Haven Kimmel

#Mother Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.”
“My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all) that existed up to and including the 1930s, when different classes lived all together in the same neighborhoods, and most businesses of any sort were mom-and-pop, and people and things had a local identity.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

Source : Notes on Hospitals Preface
“Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson, Robert G. Lowery (1982). “Sean O'Casey, from times past”, Barnes & Noble
“The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.”
“If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.”
“The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.”
“Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.”

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