"A letter makes ordinary things seem important."

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Marilynne Robinson

#Important Quotes #Letters Quotes #Ordinary Things Quotes

“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”

Source : Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597, 1946.
“If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.”
“All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.
“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”
“Wait for the placement. Wait for your placement. I will cause you to pull up that place in you that needs to have this piece fitted. If you will reach down deep and pull up that place that only I can fill, I will fill it. There's a blessing that you have not released, and I am saying, 'Pull that deep blessing up. It is down deep within you. When that blessing forms in your mouth and comes forth, blessings that you've been waiting for will pour upon you.'”

Source : "Chuck Pierce: Your Piece is Important. Reach Down Deep Within You. There is Blessing that Needs to Unlock". www.elijahlist.com. January 9, 2010.
“Anger - use it, but don't lose it!”

Source : "Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!". Family, Music/Video, www.imdb.com. 1984.
“You can't trust very many people.”
“Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.”

Source : John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.136, Macmillan

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