"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."

-- John McGahern

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“I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.”
“I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.”
“The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole â€” And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!”
“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”
“I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.”

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“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”
“Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.”
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”

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