"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road."

-- John Henry Jowett

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“Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.”
“He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.”

Source : "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" l. 57 (written 1650)
“I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.”
“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.”
“I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.”

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“There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.”
“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”

Source : "Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 26, 2011.
“I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.”

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