"I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it."

-- John Henry Newman

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“We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.”
“Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?”
“Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 21, 2013
“Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.”
“Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.”
“The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?”
“The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang
“I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.”

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