"Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters."

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Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan

Marilynne Robinson

#Love Is Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?”
“I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.”
“Me and my brother, Illa Noyz. We was smoking weed. A ton of weed. I had a friend who at the time sold weed, and it was just there. And we just smoke and smoke. I think we had about... and remember, this is back in the day, this might have been when niggas were still smoking White Owls.”
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

Source : Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.91, Zola Books
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.”
“Reading is very good. And you can quote me!”
“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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