"I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)"

-- Dorothy Allison

#Talking Quotes #Needs Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
“I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.”
“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”
“There's a lot of rules and laws that I follow that our country has set up in the universities. So I definitely follow those. But, I can still be who I am. Still say where my faith, my trust, my inspiration comes from. We still have this freedom of speech on that side of that! So there are some conflicting situations there. But at the same time, it still goes back to my faith and who I am in Jesus Christ and not who I am - Mike MacIntyre - but who I am in Jesus Christ.”
“America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.”
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.273
“I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.”

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