"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."

-- E. M. Forster

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“Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.”
“I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.”
“I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.”
“Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.”
“It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.”
“There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.”
“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object â€œGod.â€ Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.”

Source : Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.”

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