"We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential."

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Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan

Wendy Lesser

#Meaningful Quotes #Loss Quotes #Order Quotes

“If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching,”

Source : Darrin Patrick (2010). “Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission”, p.151, Crossway
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
“Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
“American presidential leadership never goes out of style.”
“We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.”

Source : Ayad Allawi's Speech to U.S. Congress, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2004.
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”
“In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.”
“Feeling a little blue in January is normal.”

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