"Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Soul Quotes #Bypass Quotes #Confession Quotes

“Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”
“Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.”

Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.5, The Overlook Press
“Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker”
“One of the things I say is I don't think any of us should be average. Everybody's got a gift. The chance of finding your gift and then sharing it. There's just no room in this world to be average, you need to be the best you can be.”
“Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.”

Source : "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.
“One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.”
“I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing”
“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press

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