"At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done"

-- Simone Weil

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“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.”

Source : "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.”
“The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.”
“Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.”

Source : Herman Bavinck (2003). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena”, p.79, Baker Academic
“I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.”
“Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.”

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