"We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity"

-- Austin Phelps

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“I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.”
“Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.”

Source : L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library
“There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.”
“Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.”

Source : "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.
“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”

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