"It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Desolation Quotes #Operations Quotes #Left Behind Quotes

“[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.”
“The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.”
“It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because youâ€™ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.”
“Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.”
“It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.”
“Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.”

Source : "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
“The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.”

Source : Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK
“Real prayer is communion with God”

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