"May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them."

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Source : "Peering into the Looming Lenten Dark" by Scott Cairns, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

Scott Cairns

#Affliction Quotes #May Quotes

“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”
“Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.”
“Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.”
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”

Source : John Wyndham (2010). “The Chrysalids”, p.89, Penguin UK
“If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.”
“In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.”
“I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.”
“As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?”

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