"The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?"

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Source : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books

Maile Meloy

#Fool Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Grit Quotes

“When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that donâ€™t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bibleâ€™s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.”
“Even when youâ€™d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”
“You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.”
“Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.”
“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.”
“Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.”
“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.”
“We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We donâ€™t want to be wrong because then weâ€™ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.”

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