Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott
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“Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.”
“Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.”
“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”
Source : William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books
“Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.”
“People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.”
“Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.”
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