"In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel."

-- Nick Flynn

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“writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!”
“I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or satire, then it's just too dark all the time. And one of my favorite literary works is A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. As you know, that was an enormously famous satire piece that was able to point out, you know, things to people in a different way. And I do believe that satire and humor can reveal truth in a way that sometimes doesn't get revealed through other means. And so I decided to, every now and then, use satire and humor as well.”
“That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.”
“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
“I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.”
“How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?”
“Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.”
“It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.”

Source : John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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