"To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace."

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Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.16, Harper Collins

Gerald May

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“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.”
“The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.”
“Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.”
“Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press
“I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but worldwide, it seems like young people think it alludes to being either the naughtier side of you, or the trendier, cool side of you. I like it either way.”
“The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.”
“When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.”

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