"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds"

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Source : Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.72, Image

Thomas Merton

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“Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.”
“Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.”
“I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies and there I was the skinny lanky girl.”

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“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.122, Penguin
“One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.”
“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
“I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.”
“The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.”

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