"Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought."

-- Maurice Blanchot

#Doubt Quotes #Important Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”
“We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.”
“What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.”
“Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.”

Source : Theodore Parker “Works”
“I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.”
“When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.”
“The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.”
“Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.”

Source : Priscilla Shirer (2013). “God is Able”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

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