"When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Thinking Quotes #Boys Quotes #America Quotes

“Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?”
“And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?”
“My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.”

Source : "Miranda Hart: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2012.
“What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?”
“I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.”
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”
“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.118, Profile Books

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