"I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more."

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Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

Jim Thompson

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“I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.”
“Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”

Source : "The Other Side of the Story". Book by Marian Keyes, 2004.
“It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.”
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

Source : "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
“A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.”
“In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.”
“I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Source : "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.

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