Quotes
Authors
Wendell Berry

"We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity."

-- Wendell Berry

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“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
“I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
“If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.”
“I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.”
“You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.”

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