"The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling."

-- Wendell Berry

#Freedom Quotes #Fall Quotes #Rain Quotes

“If I can laugh, I can live.”
“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”
“It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.”
“There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.”
“Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.”

Source : "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness".
“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1871). “A History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.16
“All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.”

Source : Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press

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