"A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything."

-- Neal A. Maxwell

“God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?”
“Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.”
“My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.”

Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.
“In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.”
“The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.”
“What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.212, Penguin
“I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.”
“Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as itâ€™s unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience.”

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