"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."

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Source : "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

Leslie Fiedler

#Tolerance Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Lows Quotes

“If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.”
“It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.”
“Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.”
“It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others.”
“Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.”
“Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net
“Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“A blessed life is one that understands that when God saves you, He has others in mind. I believe every Christian needs to know that they are not only saved, but are also called to live a life of purpose.”

Source : Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.31, Hillsong Music Australia

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