"Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself."

-- Dean Koontz

#Reality Quotes #Causes Quotes #Misery Quotes

“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.”
“What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.”
“It's our faith that activates the power of God.”
“Life is a vacation God gives to you!”
“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”
“The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.”
“I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.”
“The only power you have is the word no”

Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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