"Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

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“Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadnâ€™t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadnâ€™t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.”
“The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.”
“Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.”
“A little bit of this town goes a very long way.”
“We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.185, Lulu Press, Inc
“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”
“I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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