"The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books."

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Source : Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”

Maurice Francis Egan

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“Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”
“I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans; there was a weightiness to my spirit. She gave me the news that God loved me and wanted his son back. She spoke to the king in me and gave me new hope I could get right with God. The God I had hungered for; the Father I had been missing.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.”

Source : 1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.
“I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.”
“If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.”
“If you don't execute your ideas, they die.”
“When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.”
“I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.”

Source : "Submarine". www.imdb.com. September 12, 2010.

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