"We are not the reason the gospel works; the gospel is the reason the gospel works."

-- Ligon Duncan

“Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.”
“A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.”

Source : Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”
“Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.”
“Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.”
“Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.”
“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”
“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”
“I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time”

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